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The best classical music wake-up call

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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Wed 16 Apr 202506:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor (1st mvt: Rondo Pastorale)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Le desir [Bagatelles and Impromptus, No.4]

    Performer: Miroslav Sekera.
    • Supraphon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle No.25 in A minor (Für Elise)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • NAXOS.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Ego vir videns (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Director: Michael Noone.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 (arr. for accordion with improvisations)

    Performer: Philippe Thuriot.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 2 in C Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Bis.

  • Robert Schumann

    Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 26.

  • Chick Corea

    Children's Song 2 (arr. Forbes Henderson)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Lost & Found.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 8.

  • Francesca Campana

    Voi luci altere

    Ensemble: Les Kapsber’girls.
    • ALPHA.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op.17

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-fours Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.1 in E flat major K.16

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
    • Aparté.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.5 in B flat major, H.37

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.

  • Marin Marais

    La Polonoise

    Performer: François Lazarevitch. Performer: Lucile Boulanger. Performer: Éric Bellocq.
    • ALPHA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz (Serenade for Strings)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 703.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La mer, 3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.
    • Debussy: La mer, Ibéria, Images & 6 Épigraphes antiques.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 3.

  • Harold Edwin Darke

    Prelude on Brother James' Air

    Performer: Philip Rushforth.
    • CANTORIS.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marko Letonja.
    • Baritenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (1st mvt: Allegro moderato)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Peter Luidhens

    Capritie ('T uitnemend kabinet)

    Ensemble: Vernon Consort.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Trad.

    Let Us Break Bread Together

    Music Arranger: William Lawrence. Singer: Robert McFerrin. Performer: General Johnson.
    • Riverside High Fidelity.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, 'From the New World' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 "From the New World": Prag.Symph.Orch, Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major RV.549

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • L'Estro Armonico.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1-3.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Elegy (Gustav II Adolf Suite)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Alfven: The Symphonies and Rhapsodies: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orch/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Apr 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3