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Start 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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Music Played

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Polonaise (Scènes de Ballet Op.52)

    Orchestra: The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Anisimov.
    • The Best of Glazunov.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Polonaise)

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken. Ensemble: La Petite Bande.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Menuett)

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken. Ensemble: La Petite Bande.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Badinérie (Orchestral Suite no.2, BWV.1067)

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Suite from Masquerade (Arr. A. Dolukhanian for Piano Solo): III. Mazurka

    Performer: Iyad Sughayer. Music Arranger: Ալեքսանդր Դոլուխանյան.
    • Khachaturian: The Concertante Works for Piano.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Tahiti Trot - Tea for Two

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.52:G3

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Sabine Fehlandt. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Asturias (Suite española)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry Ripe (Two Old English Songs)

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North.
    • English String Minatures Vol.2: David Lloyd-Jones, English Northern Philharmonia.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Anthony Hedges

    Saturday Market

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Gaucho - tango brasileiro

    Performer: Arnaldo Cohen.
    • BIS.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach: Barbe-Bleue: Overture

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Karajan A-Z: Offenbach - Ponchielli.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 19.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: III. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Ádám Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, D. 571: I. Allegro moderato (Completed by Martin

    Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • John Jenkins

    Fantasy No 2 in C major for six viols

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Jenkins: Six-Part Consorts.
    • Avie.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlésienne)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Sommernachtskonzert 2016.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Frederick Delius

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    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • The Lark Ascending.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Overture from Artaserse

    Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Anthony Halstead.
    • CPO.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Evening Songs, Op. 31, B. 61: No. 7, When I Was Looking to the Sky (Arr. Braun f

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Music Arranger: Martin Braun. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Dvořák: When I Was Looking to the Sky.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, etc..
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang at Royal Albert Hall.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • CPO.
  • Claude Debussy

    Cello Sonata in D minor (Prologue)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Schubert: Arpeggione.
    • Erato.
    • 9.

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