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Boost your morning with 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

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Conductor: George Weldon. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra.
    • British Composers: Best of British.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance, Op.65

    Performer: Hamish Milne.
    • CRD.
  • Leos Janáček

    Zdenka Variations

    • Hidden Gems for Reed Quintet.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 17.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for violin & keyboard No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017; I. Siciliano, Largo

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Schumann ∙ Bach ∙ Brahms.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Concerto in D Major, Op.21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Salagon Quartett.
    • Cesar Franck: Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Georg Frideric Handel

    Handel: Harp Concerto in B-Flat Major, HWV 294, Op. 4 No. 6

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings.
  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    En vintersaga (A Winter's Tale) Op. 18

    Conductor: Stig Westerberg. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Larsson: Pastoralsvit - En vintersaga - m.fl..
    • Swedish Society.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Adès. Performer: Corina Belcea. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Alasdair Tait. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades: Piano Quintet & Schubert: Piano Quintet.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 5.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow (From "Candide") [Arr. for Violin & Orchestra]

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: John Corigliano. Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Bernstein: Chamber and Concert Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Seid umschlungen, Millionen, op. 443

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Rihards Dubra

    Ave Maria

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • George Gershwin

    So Am I

    Performer: George Gershwin.
    • Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Ensemble: Labyrinth Ensemble.
    • Berio, Ravel & Falla: Black Is the Colour.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia arr Steele-Perkins (Floridante)

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • George Butterworth

    Two English Idylls : No. 1, Allegro scherzando

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 3.

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