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Roll out of bed into 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

  • Giulio Caccini

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Vladimir Valivov. Music Arranger: Karel Mark Chichon. Singer: Elīna Garanča. Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon.
    • Meditation.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Wenzel Thomas Matiegka

    Guitar Sonata in B Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dragos Ilie.
    • Matiegka: Complete Guitar Sonatas, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 105.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn: London Symphonies Vol.2 Symphonies No. 94 "Surprise", No. 95, No. 98 & No.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013: II. Courante

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 - Orchestral Suite No. 2 - Trio Sonata - Partit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013: III. Sarabande

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 - Orchestral Suite No. 2 - Trio Sonata - Partit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013: IV. Bourrée anglaise

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 - Orchestral Suite No. 2 - Trio Sonata - Partit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Gerald Finzi

    The Salutation

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Liszt

    La campanella

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Influences.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D 343

    Performer: Emmanuelle Bertrand. Ensemble: Quatuor Parisii.
    • Schubert: String Quintet - Arpeggione Sonata - Lieder.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • American Concertos.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte K.588)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Mark O’Connor

    Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass - Mvt. I

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sterling Elliott. Performer: Ayane Kozasa. Performer: Lizzie Burns.
    • Phenotypic Recordings.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op.11

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • Allison Loggins-Hull

    Grit. Grace. Glory: III. Quip

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • Cleveland Orchestra.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Céphale et Procris (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • Coviello Classics.

  • Martin Hayes

    Brennans Reel

    Ensemble: Martin Hayes Quartet.
    • 251.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29 no.2 (Finale - The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 14.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in E minor RV484 - 1st mvt: Poco allegro

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Sinfonia Rotterdam. Conductor: Conrad van Alphen.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Symphony No.2 - 3rd mvt - Scherzo

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Nightclub 1960 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Performer: Pablo Sáinz-Villegas.
    • Histoire du Tango: Augustin Hadelich/Pablo Sainz Villegas.
    • Avie.
    • 3.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathetique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique".
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • 2.

  • François Couperin

    Le Tic-Toc-Choc (Ordre no.18)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud - Autograph.
    • Erato.
    • 13.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto; Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Amy Beach

    Extase (3 Songs, Op 21: No 2)

    Singer: Elsa Dreisig. Orchestra: Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Orchestra. Conductor: Massimo Zanetti.
    • ERATO.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie No 1

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Letter(s) to Erik Satie - 3 Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Magnificat (Opening chorus)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.

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