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Wake up your senses with classical music

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.2 in B flat major D.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Silenzio nocivo

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • DECCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Orchestrator: Bernardino Molinari. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy - Engulfed Cathedral.
    • Cala.
    • 2.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in A flat major, Op 11 No 3

    Performer: Hélène Boschi.
    • Clara Schumann Piano Works.
    • CALLIOPE.
    • 012.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    First menuet et tambourin; air; second menuet et tambourin (Castor et Pollux)

    Singer: Jehanne Amzal. Choir: Purcell Choir. Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • Castor et Pollux.
    • ALPHA.
    • 15.
  • Abel Selaocoe

    Improvisation/Tshepo

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": II. Romance

    Ensemble: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • Mozart: Serenata (Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Posthorn - Haffner).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 11.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quintet in B minor Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • Pejacevic: Chamber Works.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes, B. 99

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Supraphon.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major Kk.159 'The Hunt'

    Music Arranger: Béla Fleck. Music Arranger: Chris Thile. Performer: Béla Fleck. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Sony.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

    Ensemble: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • The French Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 20.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Performer: Lorenzo Cavasanti. Ensemble: Zefiro. Conductor: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Arcana.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades, Op.10: No. 2 in D Major

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Alfred Brendel: Schubert, Schumann & Brahms.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 56.
  • Anthony Newley

    Feelin' Good

    Composer: Leslie Bricusse. Music Arranger: Ben Parry. Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra.
  • Johann Adolf Hasse

    Piramo e Tisbe: Sinfonias 1-4

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 14: IV. Finale. Allegro molto

    Ensemble: Klenke Quartett.
    • Mayer: Symphony No. 4, Piano Concerto, String Quartet & Piano Sonata.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 4.
  • Georges Bizet

    La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Carmen)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Amiliato.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite (Overture; Serenata; Scherzino)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • From Brighton to Brooklyn.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Franz Lehár

    Sirens of the Ball - waltz (The Merry Widow)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nick Davies.
    • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs the Greatest Classics.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 2.

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