Launch the 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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Judith Weir
Arise! Arise! You slumbering sleepers
- NMC Recordings Limited.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Mendelssohn In Birmingham Vol. 4.
- Chandos.
- 8.
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Antonín Dvořák
Three Cypresses for string quartet
Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.- PRAGA DIGITALS.
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Eric Coates
Last Love: Romance
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- Chandos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 - 2nd mvt
Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.- Plein jeu: J. S. Bach & Busoni.
- La Dolce Volta.
- 4.
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Edward Elgar
La capricieuse Op.17
Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Warner Classics.
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Trad.
Sing Ivy
Choir: Mediæval Bæbes.- A Pocketful of Posies.
- Bellissima Records.
- 11.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
- Berliner Philharmoniker.
- 3.
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Fergus McCreadie
Forest Floor
Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: Rob Luft. -
Ernest Tomlinson
Comedy Overture
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.- British Light Music: Ernest Tomlinson.
- Marco Polo.
- 001.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major
Performer: Alessio Bax. Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra.- Forgotten Dances.
- Signum Classics.
- 19.
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Francisco Guerrero
Veni Domine
Ensemble: Apollo5.- Where All Roses Go.
- Voces8.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto in A, K.414: 1) Allegro
Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.- Chandos.
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Howard Shore
Concerning Hobbits (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Temple.- The Complete Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Film Music Collection.
- Silva Screen Records.
- 2.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major: III. Rondo
Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.- Trumpet Concertos.
- Warner Classics.
- 3.
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Robert Schumann
Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op 15, No 7)
Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Catrin Finch.- Lullabies.
- DG.
- 2.
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Richard Rodgers
Oklahoma!; Overture
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Oklahoma!.
- CHANDOS.
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Erland Cooper
Unfolding Landscapes
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Janne Nisonen.- ѿý recording.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C Major Op 74 No 1 - Finale Vivace
Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.- Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
- Linn Records.
- 4.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
The Leprechaun's Dance (Four Irish Dances, no.3)
Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.- Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
- Hyperion.
- 8.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.- Like to the Lark.
- Chandos.
- 07.
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George Frideric Handel
Semele (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Christian Curnyn. -
Arnold Schoenberg
Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra: Largo
Conductor: Harold Faberman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: Lenox Quartet.- Arnold Schoenberg - Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra.
- Phoenix USA.
- 2.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Quintet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello & Piano in D Major: II. Intermezzo
- Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music.
- Hyperion.
- 6.
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.- Naxos.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa
Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Conductor: Diego Fasolis. Ensemble: I Barocchisti.- Passion Jaroussky.
- Warner Classics.
- 35.
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Francesco Corbetta
Chaconnes in C Major
Performer: Léa Masson.- La Guitare de Louis XIV.
- Château de Versailles Spectacles.
- 5.
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Franz Liszt
Liebestraum no.3 in A flat major
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- The Very Best of: Leif Ove Andsnes.
- Warner Classics.
- 214.
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Aram Khachaturian
Waltz from Masquerade
Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.- Ballets russes.
- Parlophone (France).
- 2.
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