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Rise and shine with 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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Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Montañesa (Cuatro piezas españolas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Falla: Fantasia Baetica & Other Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41: Manchester Camerata, Douglas Boyd.
    • Avie.
    • 1.
  • Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: III. Lied. Allegretto

    Ensemble: Trio Chausson.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin concerto in G minor, BWV 1056

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Bach: Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Charles Gounod

    Mors et Vita (Judex)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Adagio.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Etude No. 97 in G Minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Helene de Montgeroult: Etudes.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.41 in E flat major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Helene de Montgeroult: Etudes.
    • BIS.
    • 8.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Vidi Speciosam

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • STELLA: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections, Vol. 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48: II. Valse

    Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Julian Azkoul.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Trio for oboe, clarinet and piano Op.10; 3. Allegro ritmico - quasi rumba

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 2, No. 15: Temporale

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [Highlights].
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 13.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Ombre tacite e sole: Con piede errante, e lasso

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Gelosia!.
    • ERATO.
    • 2.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • AVIE.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in G major, HWV 350, 'Water Music' (Rigadon)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 13.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube - the great Vienna Philharmonic - live at the Proms tonight

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • The Waltz.
    • Beulah.
    • 3.
  • Scott Joplin

    Original Rag No 1

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros. Music Arranger: Dieter Förster.
    • Intuition.
    • ERATO.
    • 112.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: III. Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Thomas Tallis

    In ieiunio et fletu

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Georges Bizet

    Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre (Carmen)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Choir of Radio France. Choir: Maîtrise de Radio France. Singer: Eva Mei. Singer: Thierry Félix. Singer: Magali Léger. Singer: Delphine Haidan. Singer: Olivier Lallouette. Singer: Andrea Bocelli. Singer: Alain Gabriel. Singer: Marina Domashenko. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bizet, Carmen - Duets and Arias: Bocelli/Domashenko/Mei/Terfel.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    September (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 009.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Armide - drame heroique in 5 acts: Act 5;Chaconne; Gracieux

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quartets.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi, WAB 30

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Bruckner: Latin Motets.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.
  • Jr. Johann Strauss

    Vergnügungszug [Pleasure Train] - Polka Op.281

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • New Year's Concert 2016 / Neujahrskonzert 2016.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In My Native Land (Lyric Pieces Book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Piano Concerto & Lyric Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major Op.3`5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Director: Robert Salter.
    • Pachelbel/Vivaldi/Handel/Haydn: Strings: Guildhall String Ensemble.
    • RCA.
    • 7.

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