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Wake up your senses 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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Fri 20 Jun 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Rondena (Iberia Bk.2)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring (Nos.7 & 8)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Roadtrip.
    • Warner.
    • 14-15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • Leos Janáček

    Starodavny 1 (Lachian Dances)

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd.
    • Naxos.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Five Piano Pieces, Op.3

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Janacek/ Neilsen: Piano Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Jon Brion

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Music Arranger: David Le Page. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Light and Shadow.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 108.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Band No 1

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen transc Liszt

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Songs Without Words: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 20.

  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen Fantasy

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Warner.

  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quartet in E Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • Smyth: String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 1 - Delius: String Quartet in C Minor.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Singer: Núria Rial. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • ERATO.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Morgenblätter - Waltz Op.279

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace

    • Joplin: Rags, Marches, Waltzes & Other Piano Works.
    • OnClassical.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gran Partita in B flat for 13 Wind Instruments (Theme and Variations)

    Ensemble: I Solisti Della Scala.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D.485 (4th mvmt, Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 \"Unfinished\".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird, Op 119 No 3

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Stephan Koncz

    A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Novelette No 1 in C major (Three Novelettes)

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A minor Op.53 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrés Orozco‐Estrada.
    • DG.

  • Caroline Shaw

    ...and the Swallow

    Choir: Tenebrae Consort. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in A major TWV 55:a2 (Minuets I & II; Rejouissance)

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Ensemble: Cordevento.
    • Brilliant Classics 95248.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    Performer: Jeffrey Siegel. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gershwin: Piano Works.
    • Vox.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Jun 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3