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The best classical music wake-up call

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

  • William Grant Still

    American Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 501.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 1 in G minor, "Winter Daydreams" (3rd movement, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Tchaivkosky: Symphony No. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Finale

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Ensemble: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: 1. (Allegro)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Brendel Plays Bach including The Italian Concerto & Chromatic Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert des Nations, Jord.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.

  • Patrick Doyle

    My father's favourite (Sense and Sensibility)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Cortège

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Jukebox Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 201.

  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony No 2 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gounod: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: Paul Agnew.
    • Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Canción de Cuna

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Spirit of the Guitar.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images, L. 122: No. 2, Ibéria: I. Par les rues et les chemins

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Iberia.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Pacific has no Memory

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • AVIE.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt-Suite: Anitra's Dance

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music (Peer Gynt Suite).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Ferdinand Ries. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Beethoven for Three.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • DIVOX.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A Major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux. Performer: Joseph Havlat.
    • Schubert.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 7.

  • Anon.

    Stabat Mater

    Music Arranger: Edward Elgar. Choir: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Conductor: William Vann.
    • Light Out Of Darkness.
    • Somm Records.

  • Gunild Keetman

    Gassenhauer

    Ensemble: Karl Peinkofer Percussion Ensemble.
    • Orff-Schulwerk, Vol. 1: Musica Poetica.
    • Celestial Harmonies.
    • 1.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Pepe Romero. Performer: Christine Pendrill. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre etc..
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux, D.780 (no.2)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Ottavo.
    • 6.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Biches - suite (Rondeau)

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux modèles Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

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  • Thursday06:30
    BBC Radio 3