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Start the day on the right note 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

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Agnus Dei (Missa Papae Marcelli)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Allegri - Miserere.
    • Coro.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: II. Romance

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466; Piano Sonatas, K. 281 & 332.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valse: III. Scherzo-valse, Op. 35/3

    Conductor: Joseph Bastian. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 109.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

    Conductor: Ennio Morricone.
    • The Mission: Music From The Motion Picture.
    • EMI Marketing.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030: III. Presto

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Rhapsody in E flat Major, Op 23

    Performer: Mark van de Wiel. Performer: Zsolt‐Tihamér Visontay. Performer: Fiona Cornall. Performer: Nicholas Bootiman. Performer: Karen Stephenson.
    • Signum.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt-Suite: Anitra's Dance

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music (Peer Gynt Suite).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in F major, Allegretto. Finale

    Ensemble: Constanze Quartet.
    • CPO.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth (Music to a Child's Play), Suite No.1, Op.1a: I. Overture

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A Major, Op 39 No. 15

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Performer: Miho Kawashima.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15, 16 Waltzes Op. 39.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 215.

  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

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

  • Lucy Walker

    There Will Come Soft Rains

    Ensemble: Mancunium Consort.
    • Lucy Walker: There Will Come Soft Rains.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Nicola Porpora

    Polifemo: Overture

    Conductor: Stefan Plewniak. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal.
    • Porpora: Polifemo.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 1.

  • George Frederick Bristow

    Symphony No. 2, 'Jullien' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • New World.

  • César Franck

    Sonata in A (4th mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
    • BIS.
    • 804.

  • Christoph Förster

    Horn Concerto in E-Flat Major: I. Con discretione

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 26: II. Intermezzo. Allegro

    Ensemble: Trio Nota Bene.
    • Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Op. 1 & 26.
    • Claves Records.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92 (3rd movement)

    Performer: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Robert Treviño.
    • Ondine.

  • Josephine Lang

    Song without words, Op 35

    Performer: Ian Tindale.

  • Hamish MacCunn

    Highland Memories, Op 30 (II. By the Loch; III. Harvest Dance)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • DECCA.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mass in G major

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • Figure Humaine: Choral Works by Francis Poulenc.
    • Signum.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major Kk.427

    Performer: Claire Huangci.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": V. Lebhaft

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Schumann: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 13.

  • Gerald Finzi

    It was a lover and his lass (Let us garlands bring, Op 18 No 5)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • A Finzi Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (Juba)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.63 in C major 'La Roxolane' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032 Volume 8: La Roxolana.
    • Alpha.
    • 4.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major; 2. Assez vif - tres rythme

    Ensemble: Leonkoro Quartet.
    • Mirare.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Jul 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3