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Launch the day with classical music

Al Ryan presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Mon 25 May 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Jerusalem aurea civitas

    Performer: Robert White. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Choir: Gothic Voices. Ensemble: Doreen Muskett. Director: Christopher Page.
    • HYPERION.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione

    Performer: Julia Girdwood. Performer: Robert Truman. Ensemble: Consort of London. Conductor: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.

  • William Grant Still

    American Suite: II. Danse

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 502.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bart Jacobs. Ensemble: Les Muffatti.
    • Bach: Concertos for Organ and Strings.
    • Ramée.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Favourite British Music.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 6.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Plink, Plank, Plunk!

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Mirare.
    • 13.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle

    Singer: Jodie Devos. Singer: Adèle Charvet. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Laurent Campellone.
    • Offenbach Colorature.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.

  • Dag Wirén

    Serenade, Op.11 (Marcia)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Symphony No. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Terpsichore: Chaconne

    Conductor: Katharina Suske. Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.
    • Händel: Terpsichore, HWV 8b: Chaconne.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhäuser)

    Performer: John Cynan Jones. Choir: Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
    • EMI.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Shadow Behind the Iron Sun

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Oliver Walker. Performer: Michael Brauer.
    • Shadow Behind the Iron Sun.
    • Catalyst.
    • 002.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin Beethoven For All The Piano Concertos.
    • Decca.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no.1

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Music Arranger: Bob Zimmerman. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Piazzolla Stories.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • John Williams

    Yoda's Theme (The Empire Strikes Back)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.7 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 7.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 14 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Zaïde.
    • Franz.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 104.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20: Act II: 10. Scène: Moderato; Piu mosso

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 19.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasia No 1 in B-Flat Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout.
    • Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • AVIE.

  • Guillaume Dufay

    O Sancte Sebastiane

    Director: Anna Danilevskaia. Ensemble: Sollazzo Ensemble.
    • Flamboyance.
    • Passacaille.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 88

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • François Couperin

    La verneuillete (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No 18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Aaron Copland

    Laurie's Song (The Tender Land)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 May 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3