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Wake up your senses 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

  • Marcel Tournier

    Étude de Concert: Au Matin

    Performer: Cecilia De Maria.
    • Étude de Concert: Au Matin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Benedictus (6 Pieces Op.37)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Orchestral Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV19: There arose a strife

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Anthony Hedges

    Heigham Sound

    Orchestra: RTÉ Sinfonietta. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.
    • Hedges: Four Breton Sketches / Cantilena.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Mel Bonis

    Soir - Matin, Op. 76: II. Matin. Andantino

    • Art nouveau: French chamber music around 1900.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.7 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 7.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise No. 9 in B-Flat Major, Op. 71 No. 2 (Live)

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Winner of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2025 (.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Friedrich Gernsheim

    Violin Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: II. Allegretto scherzando

    Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Schumann, Gernsheim, Brahms.
    • Rubicon.
    • 105.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 23.

  • George Smith

    John's Leap

    Composer: Duncan Strachan. Ensemble: Peaks.

  • Trevor Duncan

    Little suite for orchestra (March)

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking A Balance: Contemporary Percussion Music.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

  • Manuel de Falla

    The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1: III. Dance of the Miller's Wife

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1: III. Dance of the Miller's Wife.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Stabat Mater, Op 58: Tui Nati vulnerati

    Choir: Westminster Symphonic Choir. Orchestra: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Zdeněk Mácal.
    • Delos.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.
    • Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Le bal martiniquais, II. Biguine

    Performer: Artur Pizarro. Performer: Stephen Coombs.
    • Milhaud: Music for 2 Pianists.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in A Major - finale

    Ensemble: Constanze Quartet.
    • CPO.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt at the Opera.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor BWV.1043 for 2 violins and string orchestra

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan Čičić. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • JS Bach: Double & Triple Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Léo Delibes

    Sous le dôme épais (Lakmé)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
    • Guilty Pleasures.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Eric Coates

    Halcyon Days - Elizabeth Tudor (The Three Elizabeths)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

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