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Rise and shine 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

  • Koji Kondo

    Zelda's Lullaby (Arr. for Vocal Ensemble & Harp)

    Performer: Lise Vandersmissen. Music Arranger: Jim Clements. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Zelda's Lullaby (Arr. Clements for Vocal Ensemble & Harp).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral and Vocal Favourites.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Rob Luft

    Slow Potion

    Performer: Rob Luft. Performer: Corrie Dick. Singer: Tom McCredie.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (English Suite No 4)

    Performer: John Paul Young.
    • Bach: Complete Clavier On Lautenwerck Vol. 5.
    • Lyrichord.
    • 1.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade Op 6 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
    • Music for Dreaming.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang 3)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Singer: Sabine Devieilhe.
    • Mein Traum. Schubert, Weber, Schumann.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Trad.

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

    Performer: Peter Moore. Performer: Tredegar Band. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • Shift.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz No 16

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite: Alla marcia

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Humoresque

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonata for 2 Violins in F Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Cave. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Hell’s Angels.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 8.

  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

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

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 (1st mvt)

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

  • Patrick Doyle

    Non Nobis Domine (Henry V)

    Singer: Patrick Doyle. Choir: The Stephen Hill Singers. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos: Hilary Hahn.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Wingy Manone

    In the Mood

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Ensemble: Berlage Saxophone Quartet.
    • Dance With Me.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in A flat major, H.16.43 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Drinking Song (La Traviata)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Orchestra: Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Cecilia Bartoli - The Art of Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.

  • Albert Ketèlbey

    Wedgwood Blue

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ketèlbey: Bells across the Meadows.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orphée et Eurydice)

    Conductor: Christophe Rousset. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques.
    • 'Tragédiennes', vol. II.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 31 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 3

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre etc: San Francisco Symphony/Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS.
    • 4.

  • Elisabetta de Gambarini

    Keyboard Sonata in G Major

    Performer: Margherita Torretta.
    • De Gambarini: Complete Works for Keyboard.
    • Piano Classics.
    • 10.

  • Georges Bizet

    Nous avons en tête une affaire (Carmen)

    Conductor: Michel Plasson. Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Singer: Élizabeth Vidal. Singer: Isabelle Cals. Singer: Nicolas Rivenq. Singer: Yann Beuron. Orchestra: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.
    • Bizet : Carmen.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 209.

Broadcast

  • Friday06:30
    BBC Radio 3