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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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Wed 5 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • DECCA.
    • 14.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Vivaldi & Corelli.
    • Zig-Zag Territoires.
    • 1-6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestrator: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Manuel de Falla

    La vida breve (Danse espagnole)

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Virtuoso Violin.
    • EMI Eminence.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    6 Fairy tales Op.51 (no.1)

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Teldec.

  • Anna Lapwood

    Winter Time

    Composer: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Orchestrator: Bernardino Molinari. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy - Engulfed Cathedral.
    • Cala.
    • 2.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Director: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Conductor: Sándor Végh. Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

    Concerto in F major for two flutes, Op 38 No 3

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Marc Hantaï.
    • Boismortier: Six Concertos for five Flutes.
    • Accent.
    • 22-24.

  • Charles Camilleri

    Accordion Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Franko Bozac. Orchestra: Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Miran Vaupotic.
    • Naxos.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • NAXOS.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73: I. Allegretto

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Terra Memoria.
    • Rubicon.
    • 101.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, 'American' (first movement)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.

  • Pat Metheny

    Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 3

    Performer: Jason Vieaux.
    • Road to the Sun.
    • Modern Recordings.
    • 3.

  • Eric Coates

    Calling All Workers

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • EMI.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no.1

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Bird Catcher's Song from The Magic Flute, K.620 - Act 1

    Singer: Huw Montague Rendall. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring" IV. Allegro animato e grazioso

    Music Arranger: Gustav Mahler. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • R. Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler).
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Havergal Brian

    English suite no.1, Op.12 (Characteristic March)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Walker.
    • Havergal Brian: Symphonies nos. 22, 23, and 24, English Suite no.1.
    • NAXOS.
    • 006.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quintet No.1 in F Major, Op. 88 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maria Lambros. Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet.
    • Brahms: String Quintets Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 203.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV.495

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Alpha.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Winter Bonfire, Op 122

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Choir: Finchley Childrens Music Group. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Prokofiev: Music for Children: New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor Op.39

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.

  • Girolamo Frescobaldi

    Begli occhi io non provo

    Singer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Clematis Ensemble.
    • Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il Regno d’Amore.
    • RICERCAR.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3