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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

Mark Forrest 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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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sun 9 Nov 202506:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, X. Adagio

    • Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty; Children's Album; Piano Sonata, Op. 80; Theme.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite - Pelléas & Mélisande.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV.229

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Bach: The Motets.
    • BIS.
    • 1-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 "Trout Quintet", IV. Theme - Andantino - Vars. 1-5 - Allegretto

    • River of Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • George Butterworth

    Two English Idylls

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/John Wilson.
    • Avie.
    • 2-3.

  • Erland Cooper

    Berriedale at Dawn

    • Cooper: Berriedale at Dawn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fantaisie (1st mvt)

    Performer: Barry Douglas. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Debussy: Fantasy for piano and orchestra: Douglas/Janowski.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture Burlesque TWV.55:B8 (extracts)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    St Paul, Op.3 (Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Volume 5.
    • Chandos.
    • 001.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: III. Forlane

    Performer: Nathalia Milstein.
    • Prokofiev / Ravel.
    • Mirare.
    • 116.

  • Will Todd

    My Lord Has Come

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Kurt Weill

    September Song

    Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Daniel Hope For Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • CPO.

  • Trad.

    Sekstur from Vendsyssel; The Peat Dance

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83, 4. Allegretto grazioso

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • ECM.

  • Julien Joubert

    Aquarelles - No.1 'Green'

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Santiago Cañón-Valencia

    Ouroboros

    Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: Santiago Cañón-Valencia.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DECCA.

  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3