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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

  • Anna Clyne

    Color Field: Yellow

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Anna Clyne: Abstractions.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 3 'Polish' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polonaise & Coronation March.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 - LIVE Cheltenham

    Performer: Santiago Cañón-Valencia.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • DG.
    • 31.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O gloriosissimi lux

    Ensemble: Sequentia. Conductor: Benjamin Bagby.
    • Hildegard von Bingen - Celestial Hierarchy.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Spartacus Suites: SNO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Irving Berlin

    I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ed Thigpen. Singer: Ray Brown.
    • Oscar Peterson: Legendary Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Piano Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 in A major "Italian" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

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