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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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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Wed 8 Jul 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise Orchestral Suite (Evening)

    Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 7.

  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Johannes Moser.
    • Songs of Joy and Sorrow.
    • Platoon Ltd.
    • 11.

  • Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick

    Symphonie concertante in B-Flat Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Hoeprich. Performer: Jane Gower. Orchestra: Les Agrémens. Conductor: Guy Van Waas.
    • La symphonie parisienne.
    • Ricercar.
    • 62.

  • Léo Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • New Year's Concert 2014.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Brandenburg Ensemble. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Six Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fantaisie in E minor

    Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Fauré: Masques et bergamasques & Pelléas et Mélisande.
    • Seattle Symphony Media.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite Op.117 (In the summer)

    Performer: Sueye Park. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Valentin Egel.
    • Goldmark and Sibelius: Works for violin and orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 106.

  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie for piano

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Sun Triptych: II. Day

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dobrinka Tabakova.
    • Tabakova: Sun Triptych.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert des Nations, Jord.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.

  • Mera Royle

    What Now

    Performer: Mera Royle.
    • Mera Royle.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Verano Porteño (4 Estaciones Porteñas)

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Music Arranger: Peter von Wienhardt. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester.
    • Four Seasons.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 5.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: The London Chorus. Conductor: Michael Reed.
    • Classical Spectacular 1: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Reed.
    • RPO.
    • 7.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Ubi Caritas

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
    • Arise, Shine.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen Op.20

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Courante (Partita No 4 in D major, BWV 828)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March past of the kitchen utensils (The Wasps)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antarctica / The Wasps-Suite: Boult.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 pieces for cello and piano

    Performer: Ana Bakradze. Performer: Christoph Croisé.
    • Folklore.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 18.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    In te Domine speravi (prima pars)

    Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the Court of James I.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 2.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Piano Sonata No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dmytro Semykras.
    • Rheinberger: Piano Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 105.

  • Josefine Amann-Weinlich

    Sirenen Lieder, Polka mazur

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2026 / New Year's Concert 2026 / Concert du Nouvel An 2026.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A minor Kk.54

    Performer: Sérgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the priest HWV.258

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Singers. Orchestra: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Handel: Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, Ode for Queen Anne: Apollo's Fire, Sorr.
    • Avie.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Jul 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3