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The best classical music wake-up call

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

  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

    Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 8.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38, 'Spring': II. Larghetto

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4.
    • SFS Media.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No. 17 in B-Flat Major, K. 458: II. Menuetto. Moderato

    • Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria and Variations 1-3

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse (Overture)

    Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Handel: Serse.
    • Chaconne.
    • 1.

  • Ballaké Sissoko

    Jeu sur la Symphonie Fantastique 2

    Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Patrick Messina. Performer: Vincent Ségal.
    • No Format.

  • Georges Bizet

    Roma (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Bizet; Roma / Marche Funebre / Patrie Overture / Petite Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Marie Dare

    Hebridean Suite: V. Shieling Song

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 22.

  • Marie Dare

    Hebridean Suite: VI. A Fisherman's Song

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 23.

  • Obadiah Shuttleworth

    Concerto Grosso No. 1 (after Arcangelo Corelli Op. 5 No. 1) mvts 1-3

    Performer: Tuomo Suni. Ensemble: Spiritato!. Director: Kinga Ujszászi.
    • The Taste of This Nation: Pepsuch, Corbett, Shuttleworth.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 13.

  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra Müllejans.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Monn: Cello Concerto.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.

  • Clare Hammond

    Sonatina (1st mvt)

  • 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.

  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major Op.31 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Spohr: Nonet and Octet: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29 no.2 (Finale - The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 14.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Capriccio in B minor H.349

    Performer: Claire Huangci.
    • Piano Heroines.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Avie.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mass in G major

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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven. Conductor: Marc Niemann.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.

  • Trad.

    Sekstur from Vendsyssel; The Peat Dance

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • Warner.

  • François Francœur

    Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 10: IV. Presto

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Justin Taylor.
    • Les frères Francœur.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.

  • Elsa Barraine

    Symphony No. 2 "Voïna" (mvt 3) Finale. Allegretto

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Barraine: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 "Voïna", Song-Koï & Les Tziganes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

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