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The best classical music wake-up call

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 16 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 - Andantino

    Performer: Reto Bieri. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Quasi morendo.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 4.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.22 (2nd mvt: Adagio)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 08.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35 in D major, K 385, 'Haffner' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphonies; SCO; Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
    • 4.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.41 in E flat major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 108.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia concerto (Cantata no.174)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 16.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major RV.362, Op.8 No.10 'La Caccia' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • VIVALDI 8+, Volume 2.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 110.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sullivan: Overtures.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Boléro

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Iberia.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 11.

  • Vołosi

    Od Morawy Deszcz Idzie

    • Vołosi.
    • Unzipped Fly Records.
    • 2.

  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc dimittis

    Performer: Michael Laird. Performer: Jeremy Suter. Choir: Chichester Cathedral Choir. Director: Alan Thurlow.
    • Burgon: Cathedral Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 002.

  • Richard Wagner

    Prelude to Lohengrin

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No.2 in G major

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Bob Marley

    Redemption Song

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Aminata Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Mariatu Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Konya Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Carnival.
    • DECCA.
    • 45.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": II. Andante con moto

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • LINN.

  • Tony Ann

    ARIES - The Charismatic

    • 360°.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Pacoloni

    Passamezzo milanese

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 13.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Israel in Egypt, Solo and Chorus. Sing Ye to the Lord

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Hervé Niquet. Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel.
    • Handel: Israel in Egypt.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 32.

  • The Doors

    Spanish Caravan

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Music Arranger: Jaz Coleman. Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Scholes.
    • The Doors Concerto.
    • Decca.
    • 003.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C major, Op 28 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67 - Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 18.

  • Emilio de' Cavalieri

    O che nuovo miracolo

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

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  • Sun 16 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3