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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

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

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 6

    Ensemble: The Revolutionary Drawing Room.
    • CPO.

  • Max Bruch

    Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alun Francis.
    • The Clarinet in Concert, Vol. 1: Bruch, Mendelssohn & Crusell.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wenn ich in Angst und Not, Trio, BWV deest

    Performer: Pietro Paganini.
    • J.S. Bach: Ach, Was Ist Doch Unser Leben? Organ Works.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 4.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No 1 in E minor, 'From my life' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tokyo String Quartet.
    • Dvorak/Smetana: Quartets: Tokyo String Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV.501 'La notte'

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.

  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite Suite)

    Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Naive.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.

  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn (The Strathclyde Motets)

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Radiant Dawn.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Percy Grainger: In A Nutshell: Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Triana (Iberia Bk 2)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - Fantasia.
    • DG.
    • 7.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in D Major, KV 314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anna Besson. Ensemble: A Nocte Temporis. Conductor: Reinoud Van Mechelen.
    • Mozart: Flute Concertos.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Galop (Ga卯t茅 parisienne)

    Performer: Giorgia Tomassi. Performer: Carlo Maria Griguoli. Performer: Alessandro Stella.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite no.2 in D major HWV.349 (Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4.
    • Ondine.
    • 203.

  • Imogen Holst

    Leiston Suite (No 2, Jig)

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Onyx Brass Plays Fanfares.
    • Chandos.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

    Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Moeran: In the Mountain Country.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Lakme, Act 1 (Flower Duet)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Mirages.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op.70 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Julian Azkoul. Orchestra: United Strings of Europe.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Oct 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3