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Brighten your day 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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3 hours

Last on

Mon 22 Sep 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    Florida Suite (1st mvt: Daybreak)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Delius: Paris, Florida Suite, Brigg Fair.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Trio in A Minor: III. Scherzo. Allegro

    Ensemble: Klaviertrio Hannover.
    • Missing Link.
    • Genuin.
    • 403.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major: III. Rondo

    Performer: André Saint-Clivier. Conductor: Jean‐François Paillard. Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
    • Hummel: Concerto pour mandoline, Introduction et variations pour hautbois et orc.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout': 4th mvt; theme and variations

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Yann Dubost. Ensemble: Thymos Quartet.
    • Avie.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Un sonnet d'amour (Petite suite de concert)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 3.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduttione teatrale in G major Op.4 No.4

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Naive.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schön Rosmarin

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio

    Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Melody (Lyric pieces - book 4)

    Performer: Shani Diluka.
    • MIRARE.
  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod (Enigma Variations, Op. 36)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music.
    • Da Capo.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for cello solo no. 1 (BWV.1007) in G major: Prelude; Allemande

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina.
    • Bach.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Histoire du tango (Bordel 1900)

    Music Arranger: ESCUALO5. Ensemble: ESCUALO5.
    • Piazzolla: Tango Works.
    • BIS.
    • 109.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 1 in C minor Op.32: III. Minuetto. Moderato

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 269 "La primavera": I. Allegro

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Michael Haydn

    Se non m'inganni (Endimione, Act I duet)

    Singer: Aleksandra Zamojska. Singer: Nicholas Spanos. Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • M. Haydn: Endimione.
    • CPO.
    • 212.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major, Kk.380

    Performer: Craig Ogden. Music Arranger: Owen Bunting.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro ma non tanto (

    Performer: Yunchan Lim. Orchestra: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Boréades: Gavotte I & II pour les heures et les Zephirs; Contredanse

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Rameau: L'Orchestre de Louis XV.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Claude Debussy

    Cortège (Petite Suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy: Night in Granada.
    • Cala.
    • 12.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold en Italie, Op. 16: III. Sérénade d'un montagnard des Abruzzes à sa maître

    Performer: Lise Berthaud. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Berlioz: Harold en Italie.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Sep 2025 06:30