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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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Tue 5 Aug 202506:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Suor Angelica)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    Sonatina for Guitar Op. 52/1: I. Allegretto

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams and Fancies: English Music for Solo Guitar.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 6.

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Daniele Rosina.
    • Labyrinths.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr Töchter (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: London Oratory Junior Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S.Bach: St. Matthew Passion: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Promenade 1 (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major, CG 527: II. Allegro moderato

    Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Premières symphonies: Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saëns.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 6.

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Sonata in D Major for Violin & Piano: III. Allegro

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Ian Jones.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Chamber Music.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 10.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hail, bright Cecilia Z.328 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor: V. Agnus Dei

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: Corydon Singers. Conductor: Matthew Best. Singer: Jonathan Best. Singer: Mary Seers. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Philip Salmon.
    • Howells: Requiem – Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in D Minor, RV 406: III. Minuetto

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Vivaldi: Cello Concertos, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricco Espagnol: Mackerras.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • On DSCH.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op. 24: III. Waltz

    Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Britten, B.: Piano Concerto / Soirees Musicales / Matinees Musicales.
    • Ondine.
    • 13.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: II. Allegro quasi Menuetto

    Performer: Steffan Morris. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: II. Allegro quasi Menuetto.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite, HWV 348-350: Water Music Suite in G Major

    Conductor: Karl Münchinger. Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.
    • Baroque - The Top 10.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Die tote Stadt, Act I: Marietta's Lied

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Decca.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Motets, Op. 38: III. Beati quorum via

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Stanford: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Hyperion.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frühlingslied (Lieder ohne Worte - book 5)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (Andras Schiff).
    • Decca.
    • 021.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeoman of the Guard (overture)

    Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Yeoman of the Guard and Trial by Jury.
    • TELARC.
    • 1.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Interstellar (2014) "Cornfield Chase"

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition].
    • WaterTower Music.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 4.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Melissa Dunphy

    O Oriens

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Andrew Clark. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Performer: Sally Jackson. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
    • Finlandia.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Aug 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3