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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 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

  • Herbert Howells

    Even such is time

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in F major K.616

    Music Arranger: Michael Hasel. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos: Rousset/AAM/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 1.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Elizabethan Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.

  • Sergey Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 30 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Taneyev; Arensky - Piano Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Wind (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 7.

  • Saverio Mercadante

    Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.101 (1st mvt: Allegro maestoso)

    Performer: Joy Farrall. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Mercadante: 2 Clarinet Concertos; Rossini; Donizetti.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely waters (Two Pieces for small orchestra)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Moeran: Violin Concerto etc.: Mordkovitch/Wallfisch/Ulster Orch/Bournemouth Sinf.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor "Moonlight" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Beethoven.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music - suite (HWV.348) in F major, Allegro - andante - allegro

    Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • LINN.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (1941 Version): III. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
    • Naxos.
    • 132.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King - suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Magnus Ericsson.
    • BIS.

  • 脕ngel Cabral

    La Foule

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • Letters from Paris.
    • Decca.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost - suite from the play Op.28b for small orchestra: Dance

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • LYRITA.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in C major Op.7`11

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: Double Oboe/String Concertos Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 16-18.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Op.26

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle, Op 6

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Saint-Saens: Chamber Music: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Eric Coates

    Mayfair (London Again)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Avie.

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Oct 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3