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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 1, Morning Prayer

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

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 2, Winter Morning

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

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 4, Mama

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K.218: I. Allegro

    Performer: Ludvig Gudim. Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218, Piano Concerto No. 6 KV 238 & Flute Concer.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004; IV Gigue

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Music Arranger: Simon Rowland-Jones.
    • Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major Op.18

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11; I. Allegro

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Girls' Dance; Intermezzo (Aleko)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 etc..
    • EMI.
    • 1-2.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur, Z. 628, Act I: Come If You Dare (Arr. Balsom)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • Sound the Trumpet - Royal Music of Purcell and Handel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125: XII. Fossiles

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125: XIII. Le Cygne

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

  • Anna Segal

    Suite for harp, oboe and string quartet (Danza)

    Performer: Rachel Talitman. Performer: Adrien Eble. Performer: Mendelssohn Ensemble.
    • Anna Segal: Chamber Music for Harp.
    • Harp and Co.
    • 12.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 "Paris": I. Allegro assai

    Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sir Charles Mackerras Conducts Mozart.
    • Linn Records.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 2 in G Major, Op 18 No 2

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 5-8.

  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Martin Sieghart.
    • Wien, Weib Und Gesang.
    • ARTE NOVA.
    • 7.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Etudes, Op. 40: No. 7, Intermezzo

    Performer: Ophelia Gordon.
    • Kapustin: Between the Lines.
    • Divine Art.
    • 118.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 103 in E flat major, 'Drum Roll' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for winds in D minor (Finale)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Dvorak, A.: Serenade, Op, 44 / String Quintet, Op. 77.
    • Capriccio.
    • 4.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau (Abdelazer)

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Flute Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G2: I. Andante

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp - Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 44.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Flute Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G2: II. Vivace

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp - Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 45.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Flute Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G2: III. Adagio

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp - Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 46.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Flute Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G2: IV. Allegro

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp - Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 47.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Prélude

    Performer: Ivana Gavrić.
    • Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Prélude.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 \"Unfinished\": I. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 \"Unfinished\" & 9 \"The Great\".
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Paride ed Elena, Wq. 39, Act I Scene 2: O del mio dolce ardor (Paride)

    Ensemble: The Mozartists. Singer: Ann Hallenberg. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Gluck Arias.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Célèbre tarantelle

    Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Gottschalk: Complete Works for Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    March (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Little Bells (The Wand of Youth - Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Wed 26 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3