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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in E major, H.15.28 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Bassoon Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Suite)

    Conductor: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Winter with Sibelius.
    • ONDINE.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio - Cantata No. 2

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio.
    • Linn Records.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 and String Quartet No. 8.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat K.543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 104.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 6 in E minor (unfinished)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) (TWV.55:D6) in D major (Ouverture)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Concertino for flute and orchestra

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • John Adams

    Tromba lontana

    Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances, Two Fanfares, Other Works.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quartet no.1 in C minor Op.51 no.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A major, Op 41 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • Robert Schumann: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • ECM.
    • 8.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Concerto a 8 in G major ZWV.186 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704.
    • Zelenka: Komposizione per Orchestra.
    • Supraphon.
    • 10-12.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Little Girl Blue and Emmanuel

    Composer: Nina Simone. Performer: Iain Farrington. Music Arranger: Sarah Latto. Choir: BBC Singers.

  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor 'Winter'

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Orchestra: Le Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Quintet Op.16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Cigleris. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: John Mills. Performer: Lydia Lowndes-Northcott. Performer: Božidar Vukotić.
    • Gipps: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 302.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op 60

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Singer: Andrei Bondarenko. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev - Symphony No 6 etc..
    • Bis.
    • 004.

  • Gustav Holst

    Lullay my Liking

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • A Choral Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 901.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tarantella (Cinderella)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands (Overture)

    Performer: Frank Dupree. Performer: Adrian Brendle.
    • Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op..
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 1.

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