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Roll out of bed into 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

  • Marta Keen

    Homeward Bound

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Haven.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 17.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Sinfonia concertante No 9 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
    • Stamitz: Sinfonia concertante Nos. 2, 9 & 12.
    • CPO.
    • 102.

  • Craig Armstrong

    Balcony Scene (From "Romeo & Juliet")

    Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Shakespeare In Music & Words.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: Paul Agnew.
    • Bach: Köthen, A Life in Music, Vol. 3.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59, 'Für Elise'

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
    • 30.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    La Calisto, Act 1, Scene 14: Ballo de Orsi

    Ensemble: Ensemble Correspondances. Director: Sébastien Daucé.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op 2, 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Mozart: Late Symphonies: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Polka de salon (3 Pieces)

    Performer: Claudia Schellenberger.
    • Russian Impressions.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E flat major Op.24

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Anon.

    A l'entrada del temps clar

    Performer: Driss El Maloumi. Performer: Pierre Hamon. Ensemble: Les Sacqueboutiers.
    • FLORA.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 8.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata no.1 in f minor, Op.120 no.1

    Performer: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan. Performer: Gunnar Mextorf.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite: Cortège

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 314.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite: Ballet

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 316.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Nocturne in E flat major

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Sony.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • SONY.
    • 1.

  • Rita Strohl

    Titus et Berenice (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Sonatas For Cello And Piano.
    • ERATO.
    • 2.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppelia - Tableau 1: Prelude - Mazurka

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Delibes: Suites from the Ballets.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 18.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trio Sonata in A Minor, TWV 42:a4: I. Largo

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Albert Brüggen. Performer: Tom Foster.
    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Ava Bahari. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Lemminkäinen Suite.
    • ALPHA.

  • Gerald Finzi

    5 Bagatelles Op.23; No. 2 Romance

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Sasha Grynyuk.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Damnation of Faust Op.24 (Rakoczy march)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Sony.

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