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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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 21 Apr 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Philip Glass: Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in C major, K.315

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Signum.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Fear No More the Heat of the Sun

    Music Arranger: Patrick Hawes. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mortifie-nous par ta bonté (Cantata No 22)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Midnight at Notre-Dame.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid - old Viennese dance no. 2

    Performer: María Dueñas. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Philip Wilby

    Family Portraits (Lowry Sketchbook)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: James Watson.
    • Philip Wilby: Sacred Symphonies: Black Dyke Mills Band, California State Univers.
    • Doyen.
    • 2.

  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Erwin und Elmire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Peter Gülke.
    • Masters of the Goethe Era.
    • Capriccio.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals: Elephant

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Saint-Saëns / Poulenc / Say.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 5.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals: Fossils

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Saint-Saëns / Poulenc / Say.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 12.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta: II. Molto vivace

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Francis Poulenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in D Minor: Sarabande

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer.
    • Vocalise.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

    Harp concerto in B flat major (Rondeau - Allegro)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32 : I. Mars, the Bringer of War

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Sextet in D major, Op 110 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi. Ensemble: Sinfonia Cymru.
    • Sterndale Bennett & Mendelssoh: Piano Sextets.
    • Artalinna.
    • 6.

  • Kristine Tjogersen

    Starry Night

    Performer: Marcus Weiss. Singer: Jenny Hval. Ensemble: Tøyen Fil og Klafferi.
    • Between Trees.
    • Aurora Records AS.
    • 8.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Gabriel Chmura.
    • DG.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Shower

    Conductor: Stephen Shellard. Ensemble: Proteus Ensemble.
    • There is Sweet Music: Part-Songs by Sir Edward Elgar.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 13.

  • Frederick Delius

    North Country Sketches - IV. The march of Spring

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 8.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op 96

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Paul Simon

    Homeless

    Composer: Joseph Shabalala. Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • UNIVERSAL MUSIC TV.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pini di Roma

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Yann Tiersen

    Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi

    Performer: Yann Tiersen.
    • Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film).
    • UGC Images/ADA France.
    • 3.

  • Clara Schumann

    6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 1, Ich stand in dunklen Träumen

    Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestrator: Amy Harman.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, Act III: Isoldes Liebestod

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Apr 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3