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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Mon 15 Dec 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Pierre Villette

    Hymne à la Vierge

    Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Ad Fontes.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Musiques de cinéma - Pachelbel: Canon (From "Ordinary People").
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 16 in C Major, H. 60

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • John Rutter

    Angels' Carol (Arr. for Brass Band by Luc Vertommen)

    Composer: Luc Vertommen. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Brass at Christmas.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Phillip Moll. Performer: Sarah Cunningham.
    • J.S. Bach Flute Sonatas James Galway Phillip Moll Sarah Cunningham.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 8.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Festival Overture Op.4 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leoš Svárovský.
    • Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 401.

  • Amy Beach

    3 Browning Songs, Op. 44, No. 3: I Send My Heart up to Thee! (Arr. for Cello)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Olga Scheps.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41 "Jupiter".
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Herbert Howells

    3 Carol-Anthems: No. 3, Here Is The Little Door

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • O Holy Night.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A Minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • DECCA.
    • 13.

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlésienne Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 12.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • The Fibonacci Sequence - Schubert Octet.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 3.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Christmas Carols

    Singer: Stephen Roberts. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • WARNER.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces Book 4, Op. 47: No. 1, Valse-impromptu

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces.
    • Hyperion.

  • Leó Weiner

    Csűrdöngölő [Barn dance] (Két Tétel)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Performer: Predrag Tomic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Trad.

    Ding Dong Merrily on High

    Music Arranger: Charles Wood. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 601.

  • Anton Rubinstein

    Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 18 (1852): I. Allegro Moderato

    Performer: Matilda Colliard. Performer: Stefano Ligoratti.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • William Walton

    A Shakespeare Suite from 'Richard III': 5. I would I knew thy heart

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Walton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue etc.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Trad.

    People Look East

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Christmas Music from St. Paul's.
    • Guild GmbH.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No.2

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story: VII. America

    Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim. Singer: Angelina Réaux. Singer: Louise Edeiken. Singer: Stella Zambalis. Singer: Tatiana Troyanos. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein Orchestra.
    • Bernstein: West Side Story - Highlights.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Anna Clyne

    Mothers Lullaby

    Ensemble: Miró Quartet.
    • Hearth.
    • Pentatone.
    • 108.

  • Mykola Leontovych

    Carol of the Bells

    Composer: Peter J. Wilhousky. Music Arranger: Richard Hayman. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Christmas Classics.
    • Halle.
    • 8.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango (Arr. Yamamoto for Piano 4-Hands)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Music Arranger: Kyoko Yamamoto.
    • Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Dec 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3