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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

  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Cello sonata No 7 in D major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate. Performer: Fred Thomas.
    • single.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Harp Concerto in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marisa Robles. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • Harp Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Enrique Granados

    Piano Quintet In G minor, Op. 49: II. Allegretto quasi andantino

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Ensemble: Cuarteto Quiroga.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI: 902226.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV.1046 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • J.S. Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte: Musica Antiqua Koln/Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A flat major for piano duet, Op 39 No 15

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Encore! Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Suite española No 1 (Castilla)

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque.
    • Espana: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.

  • Will Turner

    The Secret Garden (from "Secret Garden" TV series)

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Cantabile Op 17

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Performer: Ismo Eskelinen.
    • Songbook.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Mayor of Casterbridge (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Paul Daniel. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Solent: 50 Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
    • Albion Records.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Conductor: Andrew Constantine. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn, Goodyear & Schumann: Piano Concerti.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 103.

  • Augusta Holmès

    Ne nous oubliez pas

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud.
    • So Poétique!.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Prelude; Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Water Music & Fireworks.
    • Glossa.
    • 10-11.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Bee

    Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson. Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumble Bee

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Rhythm Song.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Toussaint L'Ouverture

    Conductor: Michael Repper. Orchestra: National Philharmonic.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Op. 46 - Ballade Op. 4 - Suites.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 - Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 - Borodin: Str.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Jeanne Danglas

    L'Amour s'éveille

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 20.

  • Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Blackbird

    • Blackbird.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 13.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale

    Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Erik Satie

    Je Te Veux

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No 2

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Henry Mancini

    Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Conductor: Stéphane Denève. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mahler Symphony No 1.
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.

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