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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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Wed 3 Sep 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26)

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • Naxos.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Odelette, Op. 162

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Franz Liszt

    Die Forelle (The Trout)

    Composer: Franz Schubert. Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • Llŷr Williams: Schubert, Vol. 8.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.

  • Edward Elgar

    Mina

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: VII. Tempo di Borea

    Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: VIII. Double

    Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 12.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.1 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Les Surprises. Director: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
    • Mysterien Kantaten.
    • Ambronay.
    • 1.

  • Morton Gould

    Pavanne (American Symphonette no.2)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • American Classics - Morton Gould.
    • NAXOS.
    • 10.

  • Robert Fuchs

    Clarinet Quintet in E flat major, Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Ensemble: Carmina Quartet.
    • Fuchs/Weber: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Denon.
    • 2.

  • John Williams

    Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: John Williams.
    • DG.

  • György Ligeti

    6 Bagatelles (no.3)

    Ensemble: London Winds.
    • Twentieth-Century Chamber Works for Winds.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Radetzky Waltz [after Johann Strauss I]

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Hubert Parry

    Bridal March of the Birds (The Birds)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ERATO.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia from Argippo

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Believe Recordings.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.

  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otono porteño

    Performer: Alfredo Marcucci. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Orfeo.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle - almain

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Iolanthe (Overture)

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan overtures.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in C major TWV.55:C3 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'

    Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: October. Autumn Song

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Dolly Suite

    Orchestrator: Henri Rabaud. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Faure: Orchestral works: BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10-15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in E minor Hess13

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Pascal Gallois. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto/Violin Romances: Chung Trio/Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.

  • Dag Wirén

    Serenade, Op.11 (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Magnus Ericsson.
    • BIS.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Sep 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3