Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

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.

To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask ĢƵ Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: The Iain Sutherland Orchestra. Conductor: Iain Sutherland.
    • Classical Pops Concert: British Light Classics!.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 2.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

    Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Orchestra: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Will Todd

    The Call of Wisdom

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: James Sherlock. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Todd: The Call of Wisdom.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816: Gavotte, Bourree, Loure & Gigue

    Performer: Francesco Tristano.
    • Naive.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Mozart - Symphonies Nos 40 & 41"Jupiter"Bernstein,Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • DGG.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A Minor, 1st movement

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet

    Trio Sonata in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2: IV. Allegro

    Ensemble: Epoca Barocca.
    • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London: Trio Sonatas.
    • CPO.
    • 404.
  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 4: III. Vivace giocoso

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: ĢƵ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco, Act III - Va pensiero

    Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: The Met Orchestra.
    • A Concert for Ukraine.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Un Sonnet d'Amour from Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 4.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.
  • Gerald Finzi

    My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM.
    • 15.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Amadigi di Gaula (Overture)

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • London Calling: Barokksolistene.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A Minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • American Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathétique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.6 etc.: Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity (feat. Olivia Chaney)

    • bigo & twigetti.
  • Antoine Forqueray

    Suite No.1 in D Minor: V. La Portugaise

    Performer: Caroline Nicolas. Performer: Kevin Payne.
    • Avie.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marko Letonja.
    • Baritenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major, RV 558, 'con molti strumenti'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti Per Mandolini: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces, Op 73: No 1

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • The Shepherd On The Rock.
    • Signum.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 15 in D-Flat Major. Allegretto

    Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34; Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: I. Moderato

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Tharaud plays Rachmaninov.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (from 'Peer Gynt Suite')

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.
  • Thom Yorke

    Suspirium

    Lyricist: Thom Yorke. Music Arranger: Benjamin Rimmer. Ensemble: Jess Gillam.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Cantata No 180)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 13.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance of Nymphs and Reapers (Suite from The Tempest)

    Orchestra: ĢƵ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Jun 2026 06:30