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Kickstart your day 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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Thu 27 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Catrin Finch

    Migration

    Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Tides.
    • Acapela.
    • 2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 6 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 601.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 602.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 603.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nana (7 Popular Spanish songs, No 5) transcribed Llobet & Pujol for violin & guitar

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Decca.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite No 3 in G Major: Rigaudon

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 24.

  • Maryam Giraud & Molly Hord

    Make You Feel My Love

    • Firedove.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Jonny Greenwood Water, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Night Music.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 2.

  • Yann Tiersen

    La Valse d'Amélie

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 8.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South, Op.388

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • J. Strauss II: Walzes & Overtures: Welser-Most.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Trad.

    The Last Rose of Summer

    Music Arranger: Fraser Wilson. Choir: Apollo5.
    • Invocations.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 13.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    "Valse des Fleur No 2" from Nuts, Crackers and Borrowed Pieces

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Music Arranger: Wolf Kerschek. Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic.
    • Nutcracker Unwrapped (Winter Tales from Around the World).
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 9.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Phaéton, Op. 39

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Il trovatore, Act II: Anvil Chorus

    Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    "La Poule" from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin

    Performer: Tiffany Poon.
    • Nature.
    • Pentatone.
    • 103.

  • Woldemar Bargiel

    Adagio, Op.38

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Steven Isserlis plays Schumann.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 5.

  • Pedro Iturralde

    Pequena Czarda

    Performer: Jess Gillam.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    To the Ploughboy (Folk Songs of the Four Seasons)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Dutton.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major, Op.93 (4th movement)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Robert Treviño.
    • Ondine.

  • Mel Bonis

    Ophélie, Op. 165

    Performer: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Performer: Leo Hussain.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 2.

  • William Walton

    Sinfonia Concertante (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Clare Hammond. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Diversions; William Walton: S.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor Op.45 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Franck, Grieg, Dvorak: Sonatas for violin & piano.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Transatlantic.
    • Concord Bicycle Music.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Fatma Said. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite on English Folk Tunes: The bitter whey

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: James MacMillan.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Chau Paris

    Music Arranger: Claudio Constantini. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Claudio Constantini.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3