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Launch the 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 30 Sep 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Judith Weir

    Arise! Arise! You slumbering sleepers

    • NMC Recordings Limited.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn In Birmingham Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Three Cypresses for string quartet

    Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.
    • PRAGA DIGITALS.

  • Eric Coates

    Last Love: Romance

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 - 2nd mvt

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Plein jeu: J. S. Bach & Busoni.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 4.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse Op.17

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Trad.

    Sing Ivy

    Choir: Mediæval Bæbes.
    • A Pocketful of Posies.
    • Bellissima Records.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • 3.

  • Fergus McCreadie

    Forest Floor

    Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: Rob Luft.

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Comedy Overture

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • British Light Music: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 001.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major

    Performer: Alessio Bax. Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra.
    • Forgotten Dances.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Veni Domine

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • Where All Roses Go.
    • Voces8.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in A, K.414: 1) Allegro

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Chandos.

  • Howard Shore

    Concerning Hobbits (The Fellowship of the Ring)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Temple.
    • The Complete Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Film Music Collection.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 2.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major: III. Rondo

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op 15, No 7)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Catrin Finch.
    • Lullabies.
    • DG.
    • 2.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Oklahoma!; Overture

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Oklahoma!.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Erland Cooper

    Unfolding Landscapes

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Janne Nisonen.
    • BBC recording.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major Op 74 No 1 - Finale Vivace

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Leprechaun's Dance (Four Irish Dances, no.3)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3

    Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.
    • Like to the Lark.
    • Chandos.
    • 07.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra: Largo

    Conductor: Harold Faberman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: Lenox Quartet.
    • Arnold Schoenberg - Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra.
    • Phoenix USA.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Quintet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello & Piano in D Major: II. Intermezzo

    • Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Conductor: Diego Fasolis. Ensemble: I Barocchisti.
    • Passion Jaroussky.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 35.

  • Francesco Corbetta

    Chaconnes in C Major

    Performer: Léa Masson.
    • La Guitare de Louis XIV.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 5.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraum no.3 in A flat major

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • The Very Best of: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 214.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz from Masquerade

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Sep 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3