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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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Mon 10 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata in G Major (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Rossini: Instrumental Music.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak/Myslivecek: Blaserserenaden: Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Nimbus.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn.
    • Bach: Violin Partitas Nos. 2, 3 & Violin Sonata No. 3.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prélude.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello sonata in D major, Op 17 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Music Arranger: Sérgio Assad.
    • World Sleep Day 2025.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • AVIE.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46: IV. Allegro

    Ensemble: Protean Quartet.
    • Tempus omnia vincit.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 5.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fantaisie Op.79

    Performer: Elizaveta Ivanova. Performer: Sanja Bizjak.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite: Praeludium

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance; Ayesha's Dance (Gayaneh)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • EMI.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in D To Our Lasses (Nasim Devam)

    Performer: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Václav Smetáček.
    • Supraphon.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Spiritual Suite (No.3 Troubled Water)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent, Vol. 1.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat major, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute'

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: Maria Joao Pires, Pavel Gomziakov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • François Couperin

    Les Nations, 1st Order 'La Française' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Couperin: Les Nations.
    • Aparté.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K 184

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Eleven Symphonies Nos. 13-16, 23-27, 29, 32.
    • Decca Eloquence.
    • 5.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3

    Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn - The Complete String Quartets.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 11.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto for trumpet, 2 oboes and strings in D major

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Weekend in Russia: Glinka, Mussorgsky & Borodin.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3