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Start the day on the right note 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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Wed 19 Aug 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Gang Chen

    Butterfly Lovers Violin concerto (7th mvt)

    Composer: Zhanhao He. Performer: Chloe Chua. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rodolfo Barráez.
    • Butterfly Lovers Concerto & Paganini.
    • Pentatone.
    • 7.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'Eraclito amoroso

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Performer: Luise Enzian.
    • Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: XIV. L'Eraclito amoroso (Arr. Fateyev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 103.

  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Patrick Cassidy

    Vide cor meum (Hannibal)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Singer: Bruno Lazzaretti. Choir: Libera. Orchestra: Lyndhurst Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.
    • Hannibal - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Decca Music Group.
    • 12.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Director: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 - Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 - Borodin: Str.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No 2 in D Major, (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Tara Mack

    Good morning

    Choir: Vox Urbane. Conductor: Dan Ludford-Thomas.
    • London Calling: Choral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 7.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Jacques Louis Battmann

    Mache du sonneur

    Performer: Georg Stanek.
    • Ein Hofer Königspaar.
    • Rondeau.
    • 16.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite no.2 in A minor BW. 807 (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Colin Currie. Music Arranger: Sam Walton. Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking a Balance.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation - Die Himmel erzahlen die

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Benjamin Bruns. Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Edmundo Villani-Côrtes

    Baiao

    Performer: Clélia Iruzun. Ensemble: I Musicanti. Director: Leon Bosch.
    • Treasures From the New World, Vol. 4: Brazilian Piano Quintets.
    • Somm.
    • 5.

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Transatlantic.
    • Concord Bicycle Music.

  • Leonardo Vinci

    Partenope: Overture

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Luca Quintavalle.
    • Mirrors.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 11.

  • Jordan Aikin

    The Keelman's Way

    Ensemble: Pons Aelius.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Prelude (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Shani Diluka. Orchestra: Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra. Conductor: Kwamé Ryan.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Volume 1.
    • MIRARE.
    • 2.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No 8 (finale)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Complete Symphonies & Concertos.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 50.

  • Ethel Smyth

    March Of The Women

    Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Suffrage Sinfonia. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • The Lost Women Of Music.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane

    Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • The Secret Fauré 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 9.

  • Franz Lehár

    Lippen schweigen (From "The Merry Widow")

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Rachel Willis-Sorensen. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Wien.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Grande valse brillante

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Aug 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3