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Brighten your 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

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No 4 in F Minor

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, D. 935: No. 4 in F Minor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: The Beginning & The End.
    • Aparté.
    • 8.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 1: Passepied I - Passepied II

    Conductor: John Butt. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 12.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Menuetto

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, Overture in E, Scene de Ballet and other works.
    • Naxos.

  • Jessica Radcliffe, Lisa Ekström & Martin Simpson

    The Cutty Wren

    • High Bohemia Records.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Edward Elgar

    My love dwelt in a Northern land

    Conductor: Stephen Shellard. Ensemble: Proteus Ensemble.
    • There is Sweet Music: Part-Songs by Sir Edward Elgar.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 9.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky.
    • Pentatone.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin Sonata in B minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Duo Concertante.
    • Maier, Franck, Schumann: Sonatas For Violin & Piano.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 5.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in B flat major, Op.7`3

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Hubert Parry

    If I had but two little wings

    Conductor: Ralph Allwood. Ensemble: The Rodolfus Choir.
    • Parry: Songs of Farewell.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.

  • Charlie Parker

    Ornithology

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Music Arranger: Rob Horsting. Ensemble: Fuse.
    • Parker: Ornithology (Arr. Horsting for Recorder and Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (Finale)

    Performer: Olivier Latry. Orchestra: Liege Philharmonic. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • CYPRES.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Cherubic Hymn No 1

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, TH 75 (Excerpts) & 9 Sacred.
    • Ondine.
    • 201.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Sonatina in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Don Quixotte (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell. Orchestra: Apollo’s Fire.
    • Bach's Coffeehouse: Bach • Telemann • Vivaldi.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 5.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Vanraj Bhatia

    Six Seasons: Hēmant (Winter)

    Conductor: Will Dawes. Choir: Somerville College Choir, Oxford.
    • Divine Light: The Living Indian Choral Tradition.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 16.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - first movement (arranged for piano trio by Colin Matthews)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax. Music Arranger: Colin Matthews.
    • Beethoven for Three.
    • Sony.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 "Surprise" (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Ádám Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 105.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 "Surprise" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: Symphony No. 94 "The Surprise": II. Andante.
    • NAXOS.
    • 101.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 "Surprise" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Ádám Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 107.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 "Surprise" (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Ádám Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 108.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Suite from "24 Melodies": V. Finale - Alla Marcia - Oloba (West Africa) Op

    Conductor: Michael Repper. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Op. 46 - Ballade Op. 4 - Suites.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 10.

  • Claude Debussy

    Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Arthur Benjamin

    Jamaican Rumba

    Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Measham.
    • Dances For Flute.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 14.

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