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The best classical music wake-up call

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

  • Eleanor Daley

    The Cloths of Heaven

    Choir: Brigham Young University Women's Chorus. Conductor: Jean Applonie.
    • Wondrous Love.
    • Tantara.
    • 8.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Danza de las hachas (Fantasia para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in B minor for keyboard (after Vivaldi)

    Performer: Stepan Simonian.
    • All Around Bach.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Divertimento: IV. Pas de deux. Adagio - Variation. Allegretto grazioso - Coda. P

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Fairy Tales.
    • Naxos.
    • 111.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan williams: Symphonies nos. 4 & 5: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Jean Françaix

    Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Aulos Quartett.
    • Musica Mundi.

  • César Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major M.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Beethoven, Schumann, Franck.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo: Toccata & Prologue

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Chiaroscuro. Ensemble: London Baroque. Ensemble: London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • VIRGIN VERITAS.

  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Aurore

    Singer: Marc Duguay. Choir: Chœur de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • Prix de Rome Cantatas.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 9.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    String Quartet No 2 in F major, Op 10 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Utrecht String Quartet.
    • Utrecht String Quartet: Complete String Quartets Vol.2/Glazunov.
    • MD&G.
    • 2.

  • Eric Coates

    London (London every day) - suite (Knightsbridge)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Symphonic Eric Coates.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, K. 380: I. Allegro

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano & violin, Vol. 4.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

  • Henriëtte Bosmans

    Piano Trio (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    6 Suffolk Folksongs (6. A Seaman's Life)

    Performer: John Talbot. Singer: Marcus Farnsworth.
    • Moeran: Folksong Arrangements.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture Op.92

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • DG.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    Suite in B Minor for String Orchestra: IV. Scherzo. Presto e spicato

    Conductor: Douglas Bostock. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
    • British Music for Strings, Vol. 3.
    • CPO.
    • 204.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: III. Finale. Allegro assai vivace

    Performer: Ray Chen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Player 1.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Léo Delibes

    Valse (Coppelia Suite, Act I: No. 2)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Delibes: Suites from the Ballets.
    • Chandos.
    • 19.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Blue-Eyes Fairy (The Starlight Express, Op.78)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Elgar: The Starlight Express.
    • Argo Records.
    • 15.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 99, D. 898: IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Chamber Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (La réjouissance)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 May 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3