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Start your 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 [email protected]

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Tue 24 Jun 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Danza espanola No 1 (La vida breve)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • RCA.

  • Dag Wirén

    Marcia (Serenade in C major, Op 11)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No.1 in G major; 1. Prelude; 2. Allemande; 3. Courante

    Performer: Pierre Fournier.
    • Bach, J.S.: The Cello Suites.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major, Op 28 No 15 (Raindrop)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Alice Sara Ott plays Chopin.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 16.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro te devote

    Singer: Lucy Sun. Singer: Annabel Green. Singer: Susannah Hill. Singer: Edward Cunningham. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in C major, H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos: Isserlis/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Norrington.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Funeral Music for Queen Mary (Canzona)

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Michael Bochmann. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Singer: Edward Barham. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Rule Britanna.
    • Nimbus.
    • 27.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Mark Padmore.

  • Eric Coates

    Footlights - Concert Waltz

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo No.2 in C minor, Op. 14

    Performer: Marlene Fleet.

  • Anthony Hedges

    Humber Keel Hornpipe (Scenes from the Humber)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Sinfonietta. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.
    • Hedges: British Light Music: RTE Sinfonietta/Hedges.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: BBC SO/Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 - 2. Andante

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos No.17, K.453 & No.25, K.503.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    O praise the Lord with one consent - Chandos anthem no. 9 HWV.254:opening chorus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Chandos.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • ALPHA.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.

  • Terry Riley

    The Book of Abbeyozzud (Francesco in Paraiso)

    Performer: Tracy Silverman. Performer: David Tanenbaum.
    • New Albion.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Song of Proserpine

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 6.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonatina No 5 in G major for keyboard, Op 36

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • HYPERION.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Un bel dì vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CONIFER.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Razumovsky': Allegretto - Maggiore

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Tue 24 Jun 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3