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Roll out of bed into 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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Music Played

  • Manuel Ponce

    Estrellita

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte in B flat major (Rosamunde)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Schubert: Rosamunde - Ameling, Rundfunkchor Leipzig.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Papae Marcelli: Agnus Dei I

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Douglas Boyd. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Schneider.
    • Mozart, Vivaldi, Marcello, Wolf, J. Strauss: Schneider 80th Birthday Concert.
    • COE Records.
    • 009.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir: Sinfonia

    Performer: Vincent Dubois. Music Arranger: Marcel Dupré.
    • Eternal Notre-Dame.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Robert Schumann

    Violin sonata No 3 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Schumann: Violin Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • George Butterworth

    A Shropshire lad - rhapsody for orchestra [1912]

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Holst & Butterworth.
    • ONYX.

  • Philip Glass

    Etude No 2

    Performer: Vanessa Wagner.
    • Infine Music.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Beethoven: Overture, Fidelio & Symphony No. 3.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 105.

  • Olivia Belli

    Eurycleia

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Performer: Jess Gillam.
    • Daimon.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 55 "The Schoolmaster" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 18: Il maestro di scuola.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 11.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 7 in D minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Lev Markiz.
    • Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies: Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Ma.
    • BIS.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Berceuse

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Prologue: The Carousel Waltz (from 'Carousel')

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Playford

    Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Rubicon RCD1017.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • Mozart y Mambo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: opera arie e sinfonie.
    • Naive.
    • 3.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche miniature viennoise

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra.
    • The Trumpet Fairy.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op 40 (Version for Piano Quintet): III. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Resonance.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No 1 "From My Life" (2nd mvt) arranged for orchestra

    Music Arranger: George Szell. Conductor: Leon Botstein. Orchestra: The Orchestra Now.
    • Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 JB 1:105 "From My Life": II. Allegro moderato à la.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Aria (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988) arr. for 2 guitars

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Performer: Antoine Morinière.
    • Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations: Aria.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 7 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 7.
    • National Symphony Orchestra.

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Samuele Telari. Performer: Thomas Carroll.
    • Violin Cafe.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rondo alla Zingarese (Piano Quartet Op.25)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor, Op 92 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3