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Brighten your day 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

Last on

Sun 17 Aug 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraum No 3 in A flat major

    Performer: Saskia Giorgini.
    • Consolations.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 13.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Amadis (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Capriccio Stravagante. Director: Skip Sempé.
    • Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles.
    • Alpha.
  • Gustav Holst

    Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)

    Music Arranger: Peter Dörpinghaus. Ensemble: Salaputia Brass.
    • Roots.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 202.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Op 43 No.1 Butterfly & No.4 Little Bird

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: Vasari Singers. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse.
    • Heaven Full of Stars.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat Mater in F Minor, RV 621: Nos. 1-4

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Alessandro Tampieri.
    • Invocazioni Mariane.
    • Believe Group.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Sérénade espagnole

    Performer: Christian-Pierre La Marca. Performer: Amandine Savary.
    • L'heure exquise.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No. 1: II. Intermezzo (Arr. by Ernest Guiraud)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D major H.16.37

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody Op.3

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: I. Adagio - Allegro con brio

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Wen Xiao Zheng. Performer: Hanno Simons. Performer: Christopher Corbett. Performer: Marco Postinghel. Performer: Eric Terwilliger. Singer: Heinrich Braun.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Songs, O.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Two Autumn Leaves: No 1 (Au sein de la nature)

    Performer: Mengjie Han.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt: Minuet)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • John Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: No. 7, Notturno. Andante tranquillo

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (finale)

    Performer: Emanuele Delucchi. Music Arranger: Leopold Godowsky.
    • Godowsky: Transcriptions.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish" - III. Rondeau

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: The Violin Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • HYPERION.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Folk Festival (The Gadfly)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.2: ѿý Phil, Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: I. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: Serenades.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • John Dankworth

    Who is Sylvia?

    Performer: Cleo Laine. Performer: John Dankworth.
    • Philips.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Debussy, Attahir, Ravel.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Aug 2025 06:30