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Mark Forrest presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With 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

  • Frank Bridge

    Valse intermezzo

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works vol.5: Williams/ѿý NOW/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Enrique Granados

    12 Danzas espanolas, Op. 37 No. 2, Oriental

    Performer: Janna Gandelman. Performer: Laia Martin.
    • Catalan Violin Works.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 09.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Weber : Clarinet Concertos 1 & 2/Concertino in E flat/Clarinet Quintet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 69 No 1, 'L'Adieu'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: The Complete Walzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Agnus Dei)

    Singer: Alfred Deller. Ensemble: Leonhardt‐Consort.
    • L'Art D'Alfred Deller.
    • Vanguard Classics.
    • 9.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: IV. Presto

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: IV. Presto.
    • 貹é.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin Op.15`2

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphony no. 2.
    • ONYX.
    • 7.
  • John Rutter

    Suite Lyrique (4th mvt, Waltz)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • DG.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto for Harpsichord and Fortepiano in E-Flat Major, H. 479: I. Allegro di m

    Performer: Céline Frisch. Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Conductor: Pablo Valetti. Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • Young & Foolish: Mozart & C.P.E. Bach.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jessica Curry

    Communion

    Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • NOT ON LABEL SELF RELEASED.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'océan

    Conductor: Robert Treviño. Orchestra: Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 4.
  • Kurt Weill

    Surabaya-Johnny (From "Happy End")

    • MagnifiCathy - The Many Voices of Cathy Berberian.
    • wergo.
    • 8.
  • John Lennon

    A Ticket to Ride

    • MagnifiCathy - The Many Voices of Cathy Berberian.
    • wergo.
    • 9.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.14

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • HYPERION.
  • Robert Schumann

    Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77 - III. Un sonnet d'amour

    Conductor: Anthony Parnther. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77: III. Un sonnet d'amour.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Fête polonaise (Le Roi Malgré Lui)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Lotus Blossom

    • And His Mother Called Him Bill.
    • RCA Bluebird.
    • 16.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 - 3rd movement

    Performer: Alba Roca. Performer: Amandine Beyer. Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French suite no.5 in G major BWV.816 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 25.
  • Angelo Badalamenti

    Twin Peaks Theme

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Light and Shadow.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

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