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Breakfast with the best classical music

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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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Frederic Curzon

    Le Boulevardier - characteristic intermezzo

    Performer: Julian Leaper. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics - 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei

    Lyricist: Trad.. Choir: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Enrique Granados

    Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflote, K. 620: Overture

    Orchestra: Kolner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Overtures.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 12.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (no.2)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (Alla Cubana)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams & Fancies.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1

    Orchestra: LGT Young Soloists. Conductor: Alexander Gilman.
    • Nordic Dream.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`2

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 12.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin.
  • Trad.

    The Keel Row

    Performer: NASUWT Riverside Band.
  • Eric Whitacre

    I thank you God (3 Songs of Faith)

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Philip Glass

    Echorus

    Performer: YuEun Kim. Performer: Etienne Gara. Orchestra: Delirium Musicum.
    • Glass: Echorus.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Andante molto cantabile

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Andante molto cantabile.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Sevilla, arr. for guitar [no.3,'Suite Espanola',Op.47]

    Performer: Marcelo Kayath. Music Arranger: Marcelo Kayath.
    • IMP.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances in E Minor, Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 10.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Amor (Lamento de la Ninfa)

    Performer: Abdul‐Wahab Kayyali. Performer: Sylvian Bergeron. Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Tanya LaPerrière. Performer: Abraham Ross. Singer: Haitham Hadar.
    • ATHENE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, KV 299: I. Allegro

    Performer: Anna Besson. Performer: Clara Izambert. Orchestra: A Nocte Temporis. Conductor: Reinoud Van Mechelen.
    • Mozart: Flute Concertos.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.6 in D major

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Jacob Vilhelm Larsen

    The Pilling Pig 11302

    Performer: NASUWT Riverside Band.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Sep 2025 06:30