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Brighten your day 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

  • Karl Jenkins

    Pie Jesu (Requiem)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Karl Jenkins: Motets.
    • DG.
    • 11.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 15: II. Andante tranquillo

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 03.

  • Dorothy Howell

    2 Pieces for Muted Strings

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Teresa Riveiro Böhm.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 (I. Aria "Cantilena")

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 6.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in F major Op.7`9

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: The Collected Concertos for Oboes and Strings.
    • Chaconne.
    • 24-26.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Ash Grove

    Performer: Andrew Hamilton. Performer: Michael Pandya.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata in G Major (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Rossini: Instrumental Music.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

  • Arnold Bax

    Summer Music

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Best of British.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Florence Price

    The Moon Bridge

    Performer: Brandon Patrick George. Performer: Bryan Wagorn.
    • The Deep Has Always Known Me.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Louis Spohr

    Quintet for Piano & Winds Op 52 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Romantique.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, Act III Scene 1: Allegro moderato (Tempo di polacca)

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polonaise & Coronation March.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No. 7 in F Major, Op. 77: I. Allegro moderato

    Conductor: Mikhel Kutson. Orchestra: Niederrheinische Sinfoniker.
    • Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 167: IV.

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Saint-Saëns: Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 \"Eine kleine Nachtmusik\": I. Allegro

    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • Mozart: Serenata (Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Posthorn - Haffner).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major Op.38: 3rd mvt; Scherzo vivace

    Ensemble: Minerva Ensemble.
    • CENTAUR.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Totus tuus

    Choir: Exultate Singers. Director: David Ogden.
    • Panufnik/Vaughan Williams/Tavener/Gorecki: All shall be well: Exultate Singers.
    • Naxos.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite - III. Minuet, allegretto grazioso [arr. for strings by Ireland]

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: David Curtis.
    • Naxos.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • My American Story: North.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quintet No. 3, Op. 97: II. Allegro vivo - Minore. Un poco meno mosso

    Performer: Veronika Hagen. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 106.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollo (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Sevilla (Suite española)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Apr 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3