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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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Tue 14 Apr 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    Clear and gentle stream (7 Part Songs, Op.17)

    Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    String quartet In C minor D.703

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos : CHAN 10931.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Anna Clyne

    Cello Concerto, 'Dance' (3rd mvt, 'in the middle of the fighting')

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: III. Courante

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Bach.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: IV. Sarabande

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Bach.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 4.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 12 "American" (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Merel Quartet.
    • Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American".
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 4.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Un reve en mer

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 005.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Scherzo in B flat major

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Mussorgsky – Night on the Bare Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition.
    • WARNER APEX.
    • 20.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • Divox.
    • 4.

  • Robert Schumann

    Zart und singend (Davidsbundlertänze)

    Performer: Filippo Gorini.

  • Granville Bantock

    Celtic Symphony (4th and 5th mvts)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies, The Witch of Atlas: RPO/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4-5.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Visions fugitives, Op. 22: 8-10

    Performer: Nathalia Milstein.
    • Visions fugitives.
    • Mirare.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Poulenc: Gloria; Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74 No. 2 (I. Allegro spiritoso)

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op 38 'Spring' (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • R. Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Op. 38 "Spring" - Schubert: Symphony No. 3, D. 200.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 4.

  • César Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni à 12

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • Hyperion.

  • Amy Beach

    Valse Caprice Op 4

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto Como un Divertimento (Allegretto)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Romantic Cello Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.
    • The British Project.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

  • Jan Koetsier

    Brass Symphony Op.80 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: tenThing.
    • Warner.

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto symphonique No 3 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Litolff: Concertos symphoniques Nos. 3 & 5.
    • Hyperion.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quartet in C major, Op 2 No 6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Cremona Quartet.
    • Italian Journey.
    • KLANGLOGO.
    • 010.

Broadcast

  • Tue 14 Apr 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3