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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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.

As part of the BBC’s collaboration with the V&A East Museum's exhibition The Music is Black, Radio 3 is celebrating the music of Black British composers and artists across the week, including 'On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles', a specially commissioned new work from film and TV composer Segun Akinola inspired by the diverse range of musical genres represented in the exhibition.

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Music Played

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Composer: Remo Giazotto. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Katta. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Director: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
    • Concertos for Clarinet & Orchestra Vol. 2.
    • CPO.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 51

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet no.2 in G major, Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Julia-Maria Kretz. Performer: Stefan Fehlandt. Performer: Pauline Sachse. Performer: Christoph Richter. Performer: Xenia Jankovic.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto & String Sextet No. 2.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 84 in E-Flat Major, "In Nomine Domini": (4th mvt Finale)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 204.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe.
    • Chandos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux de vagues (La mer)

    Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Debussy: La Mer: Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Segun Akinola

    On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Luis Castillo-Briceno.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 362, 'La caccia'

    Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Erato.

  • Max Richter

    While The Flood Rages

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Ian Burdge.
    • While the Flood Rages.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 'New World' Op. 95 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics SIGCD515.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    String Quartet no.4 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Lutosławski Quartet.
    • Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore, Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)

    Singer: Pene Pati. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Pene Pati.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Valse Bohèmienne; Valse Rustique (4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6-7.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bernstein: Wonderful Town.
    • LSO Live.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Céphale et Procris (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • Towards Heaven.
    • Coviello Classics.
    • 9.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Serenade in G major (3rd mvt: Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Moeran: Cello Concerto - Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in A major, BWV.234 (Gloria; Et in terra pax)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • J.S. Bach: Lutheran Masses II.
    • Coro.
    • 14.

  • John Thomas

    12 Studies for harp, No 10

    Performer: Paola Baron.
    • Thomas: 12 Studies for Harp: No. 10.
    • Azul Music.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Creatures of Prometheus (Finale)

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado, Op 23 No 2

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Brodsky Quartet: Petits Fours.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

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