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Wake up your senses 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

  • Justin Heinrich Knecht

    Grande Simphonie: Nature rejoices

    Performer: Sergio Lamberto. Conductor: Christian Benda. Orchestra: Torino Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la nature - Philidor: Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Songs of My Heart.
    • Ondine.
    • 102.

  • John Rutter

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    Performer: Richard Marshall. Conductor: Nicholas Childs. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.
    • John Rutter: Anthems, Hymns & Gloria for Brass Band.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • John Williams

    Schindler's List (Theme)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 133 BWV.133 (Ich freue mich in dir)

    Ensemble: Bach‐Collegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling.
    • Gloria In Excelsis Deo.
    • Hanssler Classic.
    • 16.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio sinfonico

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Passepied (Suite bergamasque)

    Music Arranger: Punch Brothers. Performer: Punch Brothers.
    • The Phosphorescent Blues.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Peggy Stuart Coolidge

    Pioneer Dance No 1

    Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Siegfried Landau.
    • THE GIFT OF MUSIC.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms Violin Concerto: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 - 10.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    A Schüsserl und a Reindl

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Song.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Night on Bald Mountain

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 5.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Colour Suite i Pink Minor

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • EM Records.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV 483 in E flat major

    Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto.
    • Arcana.
    • 1.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Performer: Camille Berthollet. Performer: Julie Berthollet. Conductor: Roberto Forés Veses. Orchestra: Auvergne Orchestra.
    • Camille - Prodiges.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Carl Reinecke

    Flute Concerto in D Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jeehee Han. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Carl Reinecke: Flute Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    La sérénade

    Composer: Franz Schubert. Performer: Connor Fogel.
    • Rediscovering Liszt.
    • Prima Facie.
    • 5.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: D’Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce‐Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 2.

  • Violeta Parra

    Gracias a la vida

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 16.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • LPO.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Rageshri

    • Anomaly.
    • Real World Records.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

    Music Arranger: Sir Andrew Davis. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • King of Kings: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Line Adam

    Confiture de prunes

    Ensemble: Avril Quartet.
    • Claires Obscures - Music For String Quartet.
    • Etcetera.

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