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Ease into the 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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Tue 18 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto No 6 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Boccherini: Music of the Angels.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antoine Reicha

    Wind Quintet in A major, Op 91 No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Academia Wind Quintet of Prague.
    • Reicha Wind Quartets 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Samuel Barber

    String Quartet in B minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Barber & Ives: String Quartets.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major BWV.1066 (Bourrée 1 and 2)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • J.S.Bach: OVerturen: Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite - III. Minuet, allegretto grazioso [arr. for strings by Ireland]

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: David Curtis.
    • Naxos.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto in B-flat major, Wq. 167 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Konrad Hünteler. Conductor: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • CPE Bach: Flute Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in C sharp minor Op.25 no.7

    Music Arranger: Auguste Franchomme. Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • DECCA.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Membra Jesu nostri (No 7 'Ad faciem')

    Ensemble: Netherlands Bach Society. Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9.
    • Pentatone.
    • 5.

  • Lord Berners

    Polka

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Lord Berners: The Triumph of Neptune.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 30.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho.
    • Deutsch Grammophon.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Baron Ochs's Waltz (Der Rosenkavalier - Concert Suite)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Catrin Finch

    Listen to the Grass Grow

    Performer: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita.
    • bendigedig.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo. Vivace.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx Classcis.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV 243 (1st - 4th mvts)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Claude Debussy

    String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • String Quartets: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 2 in D major, K 211

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the Heaven

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S 232

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Heinichen: Dresden Concerti.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11-13.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3