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Launch 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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3 hours

Music Played

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Le Noel des oiseaux

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem. Music Arranger: Julian Riem.
    • Le Noël des oiseaux (Arr. for Cello & Piano by Julian Riem).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 26 in D major, K 537 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos / Perahia, English CO.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    The Angel Gabriel

    Music Arranger: Fraser Wilson. Ensemble: Apollo5.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth Suite no.1 (Sun Dance)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Capriccio.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 6: Gavottes I & II

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina.
    • Bach: Cello Suites.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance No 6

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 14.
  • Katherine Davis

    Little Drummer Boy

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.
    • A Festival of Christmas Carols.
    • Metro.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 43 in E flat major, 'Mercury' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Sonata No 8 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.
    • Giorgi Gigashvili Plays Prokofiev - With All My Breath and All My Blood.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Gaspar Fernandes

    Xicochi Conetzintle

    Choir: Coro de Camara de la Universidad De Las Americas, Puebla. Conductor: Gisela Crespo.
    • Quindecim Recordings.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony No 1 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gounod: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No. 3 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Carl Nielsen

    My Heart Roams Forever

    Music Arranger: Paul Hellmuth. Choir: Musica Ficta. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • A Danish Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In The Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Op.23)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • John Francis Wade

    O Come All Ye Faithful

    Music Arranger: Yuri Zhislin. Ensemble: Camerata Tchaikovsky.
    • Christmas Without Words.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 501.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Le maschere: Sinfonia

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in the Italian Style, D 591

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • WARNER.
  • John Williams

    Christmas at Hogwarts (From "Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone")

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Essential Harry Potter Film Music Collection.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 2.
  • John Williams

    Sound the Bells!

    Conductor: John Williams. Orchestra: Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles.
    • A Tribute to John Williams - An 80th Birthday Celebration.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Orquesta Nacional de España. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
    • EMI.
  • Hector Berlioz

    L'Enfance du Christ: Trio des Jeunes Ismaelites pour Deux Flûtes et Harpe

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Berlioz: L'enfance du christ.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • André Messager

    Solo de concours for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    La fanciulla del West: Una parola sola - Or son sei mesi

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Puccini.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso Op 6 No 8 "Christmas Concerto"

    Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6.
    • HdB.
    • 33-38.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, Pt.2, no.42; Hallelujah [chorus]

    Conductor: Robert Shaw. Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
    • A Christmas Concert with Robert Shaw.
    • Vox.
    • 20.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Romance (Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • RACHMANINOV: Music for 2 Pianos.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6.
  • Leopold Mozart

    A musical sleigh ride

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 Dec 202506:30