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Breakfast 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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Fri 21 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • Beethoven & Brahms Concertos for Violin and Orchestra.
    • ABC Classics.

  • Heinrich Schütz

    Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt, SWV.36

    Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Director: Richard Marlow.
    • Schutz: Psalmen Davids: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Conifer.
    • 6.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No 6 in E major, BWV817 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Opus 109.
    • Deutche Grammophon.

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F Major Op.3 no.5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Hommage.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in G major K.313 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Sonatina for violin and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anna Agafia Egholm. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 3.

  • Henry Purcell

    See, we assemble (King Arthur)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Purcell: King Arthur (excerpts).
    • ERATO.
    • 13.

  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)

    Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 102.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical", Suites Nos. 1 & 2 from Romeo and Juliet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    First Sonata for Organ; 3. Finale (Allegro)

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • Florence Price: Organ Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in B-Flat Major Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise), Menuetto

    Ensemble: Kleio Quartet.

  • Enrique Granados

    Piano Concerto in C Minor "Patético" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Melani Mestre. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Albéniz: Concierto fantástico – Granados: Concierto patético (Hyperion Romantic.
    • Hyperion.

  • Trad.

    Ar Lan y Môr [By the Sea-Shore]

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gareth Jones.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo "La Campanella"

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chloë.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Suite Española No 1: Asturias

    Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Striking a Chord.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 20.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • William Byrd

    Sing joyfully unto God

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 13.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les Biches)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Signum.

  • Esther Abrami

    Nightlight

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Kim Barbier. Ensemble: Esther Abrami Ensemble.
    • Nightlight.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite Suite: Menuet

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ethiopia Saluting the Colours

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Peebles.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Irving Mills

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

    Composer: Duke Ellington. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Joscho Stephan. Singer: Stéphane Logerot.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 38.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Act II: 10 "Scene, and V. Pas d'action)

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Sony Classical.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Israel in Egypt: Moses' Song

    Conductor: Hervé Niquet. Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel.
    • Handel: Israel in Egypt.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Major, G. 475 'The Frog': III. Rondo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Major, G. 475 "The Frog": III. Rondo. Alle.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Honeymoon Fantasy (The Boyfriend)

    Ensemble: Aquarius. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • NAXOS.

  • Seckou Keita

    Missing You Forever

    Performer: Seckou Keita. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Heron.
    • African Rhapsodies (A Work for Kora & Symphonic Orchestra).
    • Claves Records.
    • 7.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.25 (no.11 in A minor)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3