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Boost your morning 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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Thu 6 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Lua Branca

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Kim Barbier. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami.
    • Lua Branca (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Franz Danzi

    Fantasia on Mozart's 'Là ci darem la mano'

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Zürich. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • A Night at the Opera: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in A minor, Op 21 No 1

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.

  • Julio Salvador Sagreras

    El colibri [The hummingbird]

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit - chorus

    Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent.
    • Bach: Du Treuer Gott. Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, BWV 103 & BWV 115.
    • Phi.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt, Op.23

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (Excerpts) - Sony Classical Masters.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in G major, Op 8 No 2 (3rd mvmt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Director: Hervé Niquet.
    • Handel: Water Music & Fireworks: Concert Spirituel, Niquet.
    • Glossa.
    • 19.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Morceau de Concert

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Orchestra: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Waltz (Face of Another)

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John Adams.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Après un rêve

    Performer: Ana de la Vega. Performer: Paul Rivinius.
    • My Paris.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gran Partita Serenade (7th mvt - finale)

    Ensemble: LSO Wind Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Wind Concertos.
    • LSO Live.
    • 10.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Ferdinand Hérold

    Clog Dance; Dance of the Cock and Hens (La Fille Mal Gardée)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • EMI.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude Op 23 no. 4

    Performer: Ethan Loch.

  • Turlough O'Carolan

    Carolan's Cup

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 111.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • My American Story: North.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • John Philip Sousa

    The Liberty Bell

    Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • MERCURY.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Amy Beach

    Symphony in E minor 'Gaelic', Op.32 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
    • NAXOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D "The Lark" (3rd and 4th mvts)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Cavi-music.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • DG.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Conductor: Michael Poll. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Midsummer Light.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 102.

  • Léo Delibes

    Flower Duet (Lakmé)

    Singer: Nadine Sierra. Singer: Pretty Yende. Orchestra: Les Frivolités Parisiennes. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti.
    • Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende in Concert.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    May [Bright nights] (The Seasons Op.37b)

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Acis and Galatea "Happy we!"

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Singer: Kate Royal. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Great Handel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3