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Brighten your day with classical music

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sun 25 Jan 202606:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op 2, 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • George Gershwin

    The man I love (Strike up the Band)

    Performer: Eugenie Russo.
    • American Piano Music, George Gershwin, Eugenie Russo, piano.
    • campion records.
    • 3.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057 - 1st movement

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Performer: Andrés Locatelli. Performer: Alessandro Nasello. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Pentatone.

  • Trad.

    My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose

    Lyricist: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell.
    • Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • George Onslow

    String Quintet No. 14 in F Major, Op. 37 (Arr. for Double Bass & String Quartet

    Ensemble: Ensemble Telos.
    • Onslow: String Quintets, Vol. 5.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414 - mov. 3 Rondo

    Performer: Dejan Lazić. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Olivia Belli

    Mirando

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Intermundia.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 7.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Johannes Brahms Symphonies 3 and 4.
    • LPO.
    • 007.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin chinois, Op.3

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Paganini/Saraste/Kreisler/Wieniawski: Vengerov/Golan.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

  • Robert Burns

    Auld Lang Syne

    Composer: Dave Francis. Composer: Mairi Campbell. Lyricist: Dave Francis. Lyricist: Mairi Campbell. Lyricist: Robert Burns.
    • Sex And The City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • WaterTower Music.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. [Alla Hornpipe]

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky.
    • Handel: Water & Fire.
    • Pentatone.
    • 102.

  • Max Bruch

    Scottish fantasy Op.46 for violin and orchestra; III. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Scottish Fantasy.
    • Sony.
    • 3.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.13 in C Major 'Rêverie-Nocturne'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Piano Trio in E-Flat Major: IV. Allegro con fuoco

    Ensemble: Trio Ernest.
    • The Wonderful Adventures of Amanda Maier.
    • Aparté.
    • 107.

  • Erland Cooper

    Folded Landscapes - movement 6

    Lyricist: Simon Armitage.
    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 10.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27 (3rd mvt - Adagio)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO Live.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 4, BWV 1069, G major version (Gavotte)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 15.

  • Julie Fowlis

    Craobh nan Ubhal (River Tay)

    • Source to Sea.
    • Machair Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3