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Birdsong to banish those morning blues

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 24 Aug 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Palestrina: Motets and Missa sine nomine.
    • Arts Productions Ltd.
    • 15.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance of the Prairie Lilies, Op.39

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 14.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau for piano

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 12 in E major H.1.12: 3rd movement; Finale (Presto)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano trio in E flat, D 929 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Chamber Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 8.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Scarf Dance (Callirhoë)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices - New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Non più andrai (Le Nozze di Figaro)

    Music Arranger: Johann Went. Ensemble: Bläser der Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 & La clemenza di Tito, K. 492.
    • Orfeo.
    • 109.
  • Ailsa Dixon

    The 'Lost' Scherzo for string quartet

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • The ‘Lost’ Scherzo for string quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": II. Scherzo. Sehr Massig

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian".
    • Hdb S.r.l..
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Six moments musicaux Op.16: No. 5 in D flat major - adagio sostenuto

    Performer: Jan Schulmeister.
    • Supraphon.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, TWV 51:a1

    Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann. Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Telemann: Violin Concertos. Overture. Suite. Fantasie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 21.
  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse (3 Pieces Op.40)

    Performer: Pamela Frame. Performer: Robert Weirich.
    • Koch.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila, Op. 47)

    Orchestra: RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti.
    • Anita.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Melina Mandozzi. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Grieg/Liszt: Piano Concertos: Stephen Hough, BPO, Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet in D: iii) Fandango

    Performer: Sharon Isbin. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Cedille.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: Groot Omroepkoor. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.
    • The Voice of the Beloved.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: III. Gavotte I - Gavotte II

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Claude Debussy

    De l'aube à midi sur la mer (La Mer)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • Lso Live.
    • 6.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Aug 2025 06:30