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Ease into 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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Music Played

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, Op. 6: No. 2, Allegro vivace H. 356

    Performer: Olga Pashchenko.
    • Guess Who?.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 16.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina

    Orchestra: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Julian Azkoul.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag" BWV 63

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 3.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Debussy: Early and Late Piano Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Adam Saunders

    Fairytale Sleighride

    Conductor: Gavin Sutherland. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
    • Another Night Before Christmas & Scrooge.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C major, K.373

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Quintette pour piano et cordes No. 1, Op. 89: III. Allegretto moderato

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Fauré: Intégrale de la musique de chambre avec piano.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 25.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Bogoroditsye Dyevo

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.

  • Trad.

    Hail! Smiling Morn

    Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Canite

    Composer: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Christmas with Septura.
    • Naxos.
    • 1301.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46: I. Morning

    Performer: Percy Grainger.
    • Percy Grainger Performs Original Piano Works.
    • Torill Music.
    • 1.

  • Nigel Hess

    A Christmas Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • John Rutter - A Christmas Festival.
    • COLLEGIUM.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor Op.20

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.

  • Miguel Llobet Solés

    El noi de la mare

    Performer: Andrés Segovia.
    • Milestones of a Guitar Legend - Andrès Segovia, Vol. 1.
    • Documents 2.
    • 11.

  • Trad.

    Traditional: Mexican Folksong

    Performer: Andrés Segovia.
    • The Art of Segovia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina: Dawn on the Moskva River

    Conductor: George Szell. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Expanded Edition.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.

  • Traditional

    Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

    Music Arranger: Bugge Wesseltoft. Performer: Bugge Wesseltoft.
    • It's snowing on my piano.
    • ACT Music & Vision.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music - suite in D major HWV.349 (Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Water Music & Fireworks.
    • Glossa.
    • 11.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op 30 (Part 1: Introduction; You shall hear)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Choir: Welsh National Opera Chorus. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • Coleridge Taylor: Hiawatha.
    • ARGO.
    • 1-2.

  • Frederick Delius

    3 Small Tone Poems: No. 2, Sleigh Ride

    Orchestra: Philharmonic Symphony. Conductor: Richard Hayman.
    • Ultimate Classical Christmas.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 1401.

  • Trad.

    I saw three ships

    Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: John Rutter. Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • The John Rutter Christmas Album.
    • Collegium.
    • 19.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29 no.2 (Finale - The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 14.

  • Carl Davis

    Pride and Prejudice: Main Title

    Performer: Melvyn Tan. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Pride and Prejudice.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Georges Bizet

    L' Arlesienne - suite no. 1

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Pablo González.
    • Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.

  • Maurice Ravel

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

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 22.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Hodie: III. Song. "It Was the Winter Wild"

    Singer: Janet Baker. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Bach Choir.
    • A Winter Journey.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 50.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Tue 16 Dec 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3