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Start the day on the right note 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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestücke, Op. 12: No. 3, Warum?

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schumann & Brahms: Piano Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Poulenc: La voix humaine.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 24.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Naoko Tanaka.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata no. 6 in G major, BWV.530

    Music Arranger: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Chris Thile. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Bach Trios.
    • NONESUCH.
    • 1.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene. Conductor: Øyvind Gimse.
    • Trondheimsolistene - In Folk Style.
    • 2L.
    • 3.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Entrée de Polymnie (Les Boréades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.

  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse (3 Pieces Op.40)

    Music Arranger: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.

  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 32.

  • Aaron Copland

    Down a Country Lane

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Copland: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 107.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: I. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Ondine.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Romain Guyot. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Mats Zetterqvist. Performer: Pascal Siffert. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Mozart: Concerto & Quintet for clarinet: Romain Guyot/Chamber Orchestra of Europ.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.

  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum for Male-Voice Choir

    Choir: Estonia poistekoor. Conductor: Mikk Üleoja.
    • Galina Grigorjeva: Music for Male-Voice Choir.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 111.

  • John Williams

    Donnybrook Fair (Far and Away)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles.
    • DG.

  • Erland Cooper

    Berriedale at Dawn

    Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Cooper: Berriedale at Dawn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    A prince of glorious race (Who can from joy refrain?)

    Singer: Raquel Andueza. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music For a While.
    • Erato.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi/Gluck: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 "Trout Quintet": V. Finale. Allegro

    Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Edgar Francis. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • River of Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalene

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarentelle Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Synergy.
    • BIS.
    • 201.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in B minor

    Performer: Sylviane Deferne.
    • Clara Schumann: Romanze in B Minor (Posth.).
    • Aparté.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E-flat major, Op.20: iv. Presto

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • ERATO.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major, H.1.87 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Haydn: Symphonies 49 & 87.
    • CORO.
    • 10.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Stuart Duncan

    Hill Justice

    Composer: Edgar Meyer. Composer: Chris Thile. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Stuart Duncan. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (10 Pièces pittoresques)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Dix Pieces Pittoresques and other piano music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kuriose Geschichte (Kinderszenen, Op 15)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 21.

  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3