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Kickstart your day with the best 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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Wed 22 Apr 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia of Three Parts, MB 48 No. 9

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Orlando Gibbons - Fantasias and Cries.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: I. Allegro

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Poèmes provençaux, Op. 127: I. Dans la Lande

    Performer: Joanna Kacperek.
    • Joanna Kacperek - In Plain Sight.
    • Rubicon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in G Major, BWV 236: II. Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Orchestra: Cologne Academy. Director: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • J.S. Bach: Lutheran Masses BWV 233-236.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven & Stucky: Orchestral Works.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55: Burlesque de Don Quixotte

    Orchestra: Apollo’s Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Bach's Coffeehouse: Bach • Telemann • Vivaldi.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Robert Schumann

    Romance Op.94 no.2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • Music for oboe, oboe d'amore, cor anglais and piano: Albrecht Mayer, Markus Beck.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 03.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite (Version for String Orchestra): No. 5, Pieds-en-l'air

    Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Colourise.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 405.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Colourise.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 406.

  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a Garland

    Lyricist: Francis Beaumont. Lyricist: John Fletcher. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 - Courante

    Composer: Simon Rowland-Jones.
    • Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
    • 10.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Jubilate Deo

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 and 8.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alan Feinberg. Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
    • Beach: Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor & Symphony in E Minor "Gaelic".
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op 64 no 5 'Lark' (mvt 1)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mirare.

  • Trad.

    Appalachian Dreams, Op. 121: III. Darling Cora

    Music Arranger: John W. Duarte.
    • Dreams of a World.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Aeolian Harp' (Études, Op 25 No 1)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp".
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat Major, TrV 283: III. Rondo. Allegro molto

    Performer: Christoph Ess. Conductor: Christopher Ward. Orchestra: Aachen Symphony Orchestra.
    • Golden Horizon.
    • Naxos.
    • 112.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: Paul Agnew.
    • Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria: Domine fili unigenite

    • Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Hamish MacCunn

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

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

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Sonatina, Op 100

    • Kapustin: 8 Concert Etudes; Piano Sonata No. 6 & Other Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.

  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Qui es promesses

    Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Charles Brett. Orchestra: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 16.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English folk song suite for military band (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Songs of the Seasons: No. 3, Young Love in Spring

    • Rising.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Max Bruch

    String Octet in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth: III. Allegro Molto

    Ensemble: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players.
    • Bruch: String Quintets & Octet.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 11.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

Broadcast

  • Wed 22 Apr 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3