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Boost your morning 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

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in E flat, Op 30 No 1

    Performer: Elizaveta Ivanova. Performer: Sanja Bizjak.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tenor Tuba Concerto in B flat minor (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: David Childs. Music Arranger: Rodney Newton. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon. Performer: David Childs.
    • The Symphonic Euphonium II.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus II

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

  • Trad.

    Mae'r Ddaear yn Glasu [The Earth Is A'Greening]

    Singer: Meredydd Evans.
    • Sain Cyf.

  • Morfydd Owen

    Little Eric

    Performer: Brian Ellsbury.
    • Portrait of a Lost Icon.
    • Tŷ Cerdd Records.
    • 8.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds: The Cuckoo

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 105.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Music Arranger: Mikhail Parhamovsky. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Thomas Carroll.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 oboes, 2 recorders & 2 violins in C major, RV.557

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi X22.
    • Signum.
    • 1-3.

  • Sultan Abdülaziz

    Hicâz Mandira

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Mediterraneo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op 1 No 1

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Jonathan Ware.
    • Alto Appassionato.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Mai, Op 1 No 2

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Jonathan Ware.
    • Alto Appassionato.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Boléro

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

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude, op.10 no. 1 in C major "Waterfall"

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert des Nations, Jord.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Der Freischütz: "Viktoria, Viktoria!"

    Choir: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.
    • The Freischütz Project.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.73, 'Emperor' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

  • John Williams

    Hello Francis

    Performer: John Williams.
    • From A Bird.
    • JCW.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Polonaise in B-Flat Major

    Performer: Andreas Janke. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphony No. 7 "Unfinished" & Rondo, Concerto & Polonaise for Violin a.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Puccini's Heroines: The Power of Love.
    • Warner.
    • 1.

  • Josef Strauss

    Music of the Spheres

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2022 / New Year's Concert 2022 / Concert du Nouvel An 2022.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Decca.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Ave generosa

    Conductor: Jeremy Summerly. Choir: Oxford Camerata.
    • Hildegard Von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Debussy, Dukas, Roussel.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes, RCT 44: Les Sauvages - Rondeau

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Music Arranger: Bo Wiget. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    I giorni

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Conductor: Jacques Ammon. Orchestra: German Chamber Orchestra, Berlin.
    • Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 "Classical" (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical", Suites Nos. 1 & 2 from Romeo and Juliet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 (1st 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..
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 1 May 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3