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Kickstart your day with the best classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Cafe 1930 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Piazzolla for Two - Tangos for Flute & Guitar: Patrick Gallois, Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Concertante Quartet in C major, Op 15 No 3: second movement (Rondeau)

    Ensemble: Levare String Quartet.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French suite no. 4 in E flat major BWV.815 for keyboard: Air and Gigue

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • DGG : 479 6565.
    • DG.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt, Allegro molto)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Air for Chalumeau "La Tortora"

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Alexander Scherf. Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • Sony.
  • Michael Haydn

    Symphony No 13 in D Major (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Lavard Skou-Larsen. Orchestra: German Chamber Academy Neuss.
    • Michael Haydn: Symphonies & Notturno.
    • CPO.
    • 3.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A Minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata in G Major: I. Moderato

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Rossini: Instrumental Music.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Murmur of the Wheat (Au sein de la nature)

    Performer: Mengjie Han.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Allegro Appassionato Op.43

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Hanssler Classic.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for Flute, Recorder & Strings in E minor; 2nd mvt - Allegro

    Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Tabea Debus. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920: Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F Major, Op. 31: I. Allegro

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Spohr, L.: Nonet, Op. 31 / Beethoven, L. Van: Septet, Op. 20.
    • Capriccio.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Saul: Symphony

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Anoushka Shankar

    Daydreaming

    Performer: Nils Frahm. Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Anoushka Shankar.
    • Chapter I: Forever, For Now.
    • Leiter.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout' (5th mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Richard Duven. Performer: Peter Riegelbauer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le Matin d'un jour de fete (Iberia)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Iberia.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Fabio Di Càsola. Orchestra: Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • W A Mozart, Clarinet Concerto: Fabio di Casola/Musikkollegium Winterthur/Boyd.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • John Tavener

    Hymn to the Mother of God

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.4 in G major Op.61 'Mozartiana' (Theme & 10 Variations)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS MASTERWORKS.
  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto Op.14 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Seaman.
    • CANYON CLASSICS.
  • María Dolores de Goñi

    L'Alhambra

    Performer: Annette Kruisbrink.
    • Guitar Music by Women Composers.
    • Soundset.
    • 7.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture and Suites from the Operas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 12 Aug 2025 06:30