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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Gabriel Verdalle

    Impromptu No 2 in A-Flat

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Spohr, Fauré, Pierné, Saint-Saëns & Roussel: Fantasies and Impromptus.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite: The Princesses' Round Dance

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, Scherzo, Tango.
    • Channel Classics Records.
    • 18.

  • Armas Järnefelt

    Praeludium

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Meditation.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 63.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128: Duet

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Lionel Meunier. Choir: Vox Luminis. Singer: William Shelton. Singer: Raphael Höhn.
    • Bach & Telemann: Himmelfahrt.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 21.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Cygnets (Swan Lake, Op 20)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E-Flat (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Marco Postinghel. Performer: Wen Xiao Zheng. Performer: Eric Terwilliger. Performer: Hanno Simons. Performer: Christopher Corbett. Singer: Heinrich Braun.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Songs, O.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Symphonie concertante in E flat major, Op 13 No 1 (1st mvmt)

    Performer: Zoë Beyers. Performer: Midori Sugiyama. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Raindrop' Prelude in D flat major (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Prelude Chopin: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 15.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Flute Concerto in G major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Warner.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.49 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Agnus Dei (Requiem, Op.48)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 12.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No 1

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

  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Lua Branca

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Kim Barbier. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami.
    • Lua Branca (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Mozart: Overtures/Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: The King’s Singers.
    • Head Space: Candlelight.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 113.

  • William Grant Still

    Wood Notes: Whippoorwill's Shoes

    Conductor: John Jeter. Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 7 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 3.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries - extract (Die Walkure)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Waltz No 1 in A Major

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Smetana & Dvořák: Works for String Quartet.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili.
    • Giorgi Gigashvili Plays Prokofiev.
    • ALPHA.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    When I, good friends, was called to the bar (Trial by Jury)

    Lyricist: William Gilbert. Singer: Richard Suart. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard & Trial by Jury.
    • Telarc.
    • 28.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 "Choral" (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Singer: Katerina Beranova. Singer: Lilli Paasikivi. Singer: Robert Dean Smith. Singer: Hanno Müller‐Brachmann. Choir: Leipzig Gewandhaus Choir. Choir: MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Choir: Leipzig Gewandhaus Children's Choir.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No.9.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Where Beauty Dwells, Op. 21 No. 7 (Arr. Wild)

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 27.

  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Crocodile

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Benjamin Britten, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake: Gerald Finley and Julius.
    • Hyperion.
    • 31.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3