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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

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    String Quartet no.2 in F Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Noga Quartet.
    • Aquarelles.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 101.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Videntes Stellam

    Choir: Voces 8.
    • Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 12.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 65, 'Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen'

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Falstaff (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Salieri: Symphonies, Ovtures and Variations.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Une Barque sur l'ocean (Miroirs)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Ravel: Miroirs, La Valse - Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka, L'Oiseau de f.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, Op. 3 No. 10 'Con quattro Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 580: All

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • SONY.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Chineke! Records.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.

  • Eric Whitacre

    A Boy and a Girl

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst.
    • Hyperion.

  • Henry Litolff

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Agathe Backer-Grondahl

    Fanitullen (Norwegian folk songs and dances, Op 30)

    Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth.
    • Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 603.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.6 in E major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • A & D Scarlatti – Concerti & Sinfonie.
    • Virgin.
    • 27.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9.
    • Pentatone.
    • 8.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano FS.68

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Chamber Music for Horn.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1785.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Risselty rosselty

    Ensemble: Schönberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Alpha.

  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Smetana Quartet.
    • Smetana Quartet plays Janacek and Dvorak.
    • Testament.
    • 9-12.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D Major 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Violin Concertos Collection.
    • Linn Records.

  • Samuel Barber

    The School for Scandal Overture

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Barber: Adagio / Violin Concerto.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    If music be the food of love

    Performer: Julian Perkins. Singer: Grace Davidson.
    • A Thousand Charms.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schumann: Symphonies 1-4: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 3.

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