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Start the day strong 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

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto No 9 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1, etc.: Jacqueline du Pre.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Trio No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Klaviertrio Hannover.
    • Missing Link.
    • Genuin.
    • 302.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ian Hardwick. Performer: Thomas Watmough. Performer: Jonathan Davies. Performer: John Ryan. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Jurowski Conducts Mozart Wind Concertos.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 106.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prélude.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Tchaikovsky: String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Rubicon.
    • 103.

  • César Franck

    Panis angelicus (Mass Op.12)

    Music Arranger: Wolfgang Hochstein. Singer: Pablo Strong. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Performer: Graham Walker. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Hear My Words - Choral Classics from St. John's.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Naïs (Overture)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 86 in D major (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat (4th mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations.
    • Ondine.
    • 104.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Linn Records CKD 502.
    • Linn Records.
    • 7.

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    La Gioconda, Act III: Dance of the Hours

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.

  • Joan Ambrosio Dalza

    Calata ala spagnola (Lute book No 4)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Other Side.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony no.1 in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Naxos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op. 22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    String Quartet in D minor (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.
    • Caprice.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto à 5 in D Major, TWV 44:2: IV. Presto

    Conductor: Carin van Heerden. Ensemble: L’Orfeo Wind Ensemble.
    • Telemann: Wind Overtures, Vol. 1.
    • CPO.
    • 204.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim. Orchestra: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Anton Bruckner

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto in E flat Major Op.74 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • SONY.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Antonello Manacorda. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

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