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Kickstart your day with the best 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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Thu 23 Oct 202506:30
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Music Played

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro-American' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • CEDILLE.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silent Woods, Op.68 no.5

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Jacqueline du Pre: The Complete EMI Recordings.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Hommage à Rameau (Images - set 1)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy – Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 28.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata No 42, 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats')

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Bach; Vivaldi - Overtures; Sinfonias; Concertos.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Gustav Holst

    St. Paul's Suite (I. Jig)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • English String Music: Britten, Holst, Purcell, Vaughan Williams....
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (3rd mvt)

    • Brahms: 3 Sonatas.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse lyrique Op.96 no.1

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Sibelius: Violin concerto, Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela and other works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Gli amanti falliti

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.

  • Georges Bizet

    Roma (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Bizet : Symphony in C, Jeux d'Enfants, Roma.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 111.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major, RV 167

    Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 31-33.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major arr for brass

    Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    'Enigma' Variations, No 14: E.D.U. (finale)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Elgar - In the South, Serenade, Enigma Variations.
    • Onyx.
    • 19.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation (The Heavens are telling)

    Singer: Anna Lucia Richter. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Florian Boesch. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn: Die Schöpfung.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    3 Morceaux, No.2 "Au Bal"

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Mozart / Rachmaninoff: Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie Espagnole (5th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 5.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No 2 in A major

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op.65 No.6

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Ave regina coelorum à 8

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Palestrina - Volume 4. The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town', Op 40

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 4 "Gassenhauer" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Beethoven for Three.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Handel: Arie e Duetti D'Amore; Europa Galante.
    • Naive.
    • 3.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (Prelude and 1st Tableau)

    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Oct 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3