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Start your day with classical music

Linton Stephens presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected].

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Mon 27 Oct 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorák In Prague: A Celebration (Remastered).
    • Sony.
    • 4.

  • Marguerite Monnot

    Hymne a l'amour

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Lyricist: Édith Piaf.
    • Letters From Paris.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! (Cantata No. 214)

    Choir: Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Philips.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Für Elise, Bagatelle in A Minor (1822 Version)

    Performer: Tobias Koch.
    • Beethoven 2020: Rarities.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde: Ballet in G Major

    Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
    • Schubert: Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 6.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C Major, H.16:35 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Jane Austen’s Piano.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Armas Järnefelt

    Praeludium

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Warner.

  • Ludwig Minkus

    Spanish Dance (Don Quixote)

    Conductor: Nayden Todorov. Orchestra: Sofia National Opera Orchestra.
    • Minkus: Don Quixote.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Justin Doyle.
    • Stella Maris.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Dargason (St Paul's Suite)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (1st mvt: Allegro moderato)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, "The Chaplet"

    Ensemble: Aradia Ensemble. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.
    • Naxos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Dance (African Suite)

    Music Arranger: Chris Cameron. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.3 in G major BWV.1048

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 14.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Musette Op 24

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Irina Zahharenkova.
    • Lise Cristiani.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro Te Devote

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Adoro Te Devote & Miserere.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Loewe

    My Fair Lady: Overture

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Frederick Loewe

    My Fair Lady: Embassy Waltz

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady.
    • Chandos.
    • 128.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D Major 'The Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 12.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande (Keyboard suite in D minor HWV.437)

    Music Arranger: Olivier Fourés. Performer: Daniel Hope. Ensemble: Daniel Hope Ensemble.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Oct 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3