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Start your 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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Fri 14 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Spring song Op.16 for orchestra

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • DG.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi 8+, Volume 2.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen Op.15 (Traumerei; Am Camin)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty: Panorama

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in D Minor

    Performer: Niklas Jahn.
    • Organ Recital.
    • Naxos.
    • 106.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Chaconne of the Scaramouches)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre Du Roi Soleil: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Sa.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Ivan Moody

    Canticum Canticorum I: III. Ego dilecto meo

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • Sky of my Heart.
    • BIS.
    • 203.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop Drop Slow Tears

    Choir: New York Polyphony. Ensemble: LeStrange Viols.
    • Sky of my Heart.
    • BIS.
    • 1101.

  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming

    Performer: Sterling Elliott. Performer: Richard Uttley.

  • Eric Coates

    Television March

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La boutique fantasque: Tarantella

    Music Arranger: Ottorino Respighi. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos. Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Transcriptions for Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 13 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Akhtamar Quartet.
    • Dvořák, Dabić: Origins.
    • Cypres.
    • 3.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Toccata and Fugue: Great Organ Works: Peter Hurford.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto no. 3 in A major Wq.172: 1st movement; Allegro

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Director: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Mozart.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Legend of the Kalendar Prince

    Performer: Sergey Galaktionov. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: Filarmonica 900 Teatro Regio Torino.
    • Fone Records.

  • Dave Grusin

    Fratelli Chase (The Goonies)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Studio Symphony.
    • The Goonies: 25th Anniversary Edition (Original Motion Picture Score).
    • Varese Sarabande.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2, 'The Joke' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus: Ouverture

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2022 / New Year's Concert 2022 / Concert du Nouvel An 2022.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 07.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness (Waltz Suite Op.110)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Max Richter

    The Four Seasons Recomposed: Autumn I

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Orchestra: Covent Garden Sinfonia. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter.
    • Rubicon.
    • 107.

  • Aaron Copland

    Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    The Lark

    Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev. Performer: Maria Ioudenitch. Performer: Kenny Broberg. Music Arranger: Leopold Auer.
    • Songbird.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Henry Wood

    Jack's the lad [Sailors' hornpipe] (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Philips.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A minor (4th mvt: Scherzo)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Clara Novakova. Performer: Richard Vieille. Orchestra: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Saens: La Muse et le Poete etc: Kantorow.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3