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Breakfast with the best classical music

Linton Stephens 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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Wed 28 May 202506:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silence and Music

    Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Summa

    Music Arranger: Eduard Wesly. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • William Byrd/Arvo Part: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • MDG.
    • 12.

  • Anna Cawrse

    Songs Without Words (Lied)

    Ensemble: Benaud Trio.
    • Women of Note vol 3.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Herze (St Matthew Passion, BWV.244)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.
    • Archiv.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • J. Strauss II: Walzes & Overtures: Welser-Most.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Enchantment (Beyond The Dream)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 14.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin)

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No.13 in B-Flat Major, Op.130 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 10 & 13, Opp. 74 & 130.
    • BIS.
    • 110.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Sarao (Concierto serenata)

    Performer: Isabelle Moretti. Orchestra: Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.
    • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Concierto Serenata.
    • Auvdis Valois.
    • 8.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • György Ligeti

    Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet: Nos. 1, 4. 3

    Ensemble: Les Siècles.
    • Ligeti: Six Bagatelles, Chamber Concerto & Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (Live).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Dies Irae (War Requiem)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Choir: Bach Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Benjamin Britten - War Requiem.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Invocatio

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Kol Nidrei: Elegy For Pamela.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem (Selig sind die Toten)

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 7.

  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Beatrice Nicholas.
    • Beatrice Nicholas (Bandcamp).

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 304.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV.541

    Performer: Lucas Pohle.
    • RONDEAU.

  • Aaron Copland

    Danzon cubano

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Latin American Fiesta: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 May 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3