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Rise and shine 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 [email protected]

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Thu 8 May 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • The British Light Music Classics Series: The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in D major K.285 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Friend. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne (Transcr. Brahms

    • Œuvres pour la main gauche: Bach / Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Bartók, Scriabine, Chopi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.

  • Gottfried von der Goltz & Karl Kaiser

    Bach: Canons BWV.1072-1078, 1086

    • Hanssler.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Chabrier: Suite pastorale: II. Danse villageoise

    • Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in E flat major, H.15.10

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.

  • Philip Glass

    Facades

    Performer: Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico. Director: Elias Arizcuren.
    • Orange Mountain Music.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding-Cake - Caprice-Waltz in A flat major Op.76

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS : CHSA 5162.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 20.

  • Manos Hadjidakis

    O tahidrómos (The Postman)

    Performer: Kostas Papadopoulos. Music Arranger: Stavros Xarchakos. Singer: Agnes Baltsa. Orchestra: Athens Experimental Orchestra. Conductor: Stavros Xarchakos.
    • Songs my country taught me.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic dances - series 1 Op.46 (nos 4 & 6)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • DG.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri Op.70

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Elgar: Violin sonata etc: Kennedy/Pettinger.
    • Chandos.

  • Eric Coates

    Television March

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Florian Christl

    Mendelssohn Variation (From Violin Concerto, Op.64/MWV O14: I. Allegro molto app

    Composer: Felix Mendelssohn.
    • Mendelssohn Variation (From Violin Concerto, Op.64/MWV O14: I. Allegro molto app.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Nisi Dominus HWV 238

    Singer: Diana Montague. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Simon Birchall. Orchestra: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Director: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin.

  • Glenn Miller

    Moonlight Serenade

    Music Arranger: Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • 'Round Midnight.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 4 violins in G

    Performer: Alice Harnoncourt. Performer: Walter Pfeiffer. Performer: Peter Schoberwalter. Performer: Kurt Theiner. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major D.664 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • Llŷr Williams: Schubert, Vol. 6.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 203.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    3 Dance episodes from 'On the town'

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • Angel.
    • 7.

  • Léo Delibes

    Sous le dôme épais (Lakmé)

    Singer: Mady Mesplé. Singer: Danielle Millet. Orchestra: Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra‐Comique. Conductor: Alain Lombard.
    • Delibes: Lakme: Lombard/Mesple/Paris Opera Comique Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Scott Joplin

    Gladiolus Rag

    Performer: Marcus Roberts.
    • Marcus Roberts: The Joy of Joplin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    España arr for guitar, Op 165 (Capricho catalan)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.

  • John Williams

    Saving Private Ryan - Hymn to the Fallen

    Conductor: Paul Bateman. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • John Williams Soundtracks, Vol. 1.
    • Union Square Music.
    • 13.

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 May 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3