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Brighten your day with classical music

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • César Franck

    Cello Sonata in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Franck & Chopin: Cello Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute Concerto (2nd mvt, Largo)

    Performer: Evangelina Mascardi. Orchestra: Estrovagante. Conductor: Riccardo Doni.
    • Beyond Vivaldi: Lute Concertos.
    • Arcana.
    • 8.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G major (Op 32, No 5)

    Performer: Fedor Veselov.
    • 13 Préludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major. Moderato.
    • Prima Classic.
    • 1.
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Bregman & Buddy Bregman Orchestra

    Have You Met Miss Jones?

    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Conductor: Zachary Carrettin. Orchestra: COmpass REsonance.
    • J.S. Bach & Silvestrov.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Wonderland.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (3rd mvt, Romanze)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    Mina

    Orchestra: Northern Sinfonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 19.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS.
  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Paul Huang. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Korngold & Barber.
    • Naive.
    • 2.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro-American' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet "Sunrise" (1st mvt, Allegro con spirito)

    Ensemble: Allegro String Ensemble.
    • Lynne Publishing.
  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle (Act 1, No 7a): Giselle's Variation

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicolette Fraillon.
    • Giselle.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 16.
  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and Silver Waltz

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Here Come the Classics, Vol. 12: The Glory of Vienna.
    • RPO.
    • 11.
  • Sidney Bechet & Claude Luter et son orchestre

    Si tu vois ma mère

    • Les Années Bechet.
    • Vogue.
    • 11.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 4.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Der Wald (1st mvt, Prologue)

    Orchestra: ĢƵ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews. Ensemble: ĢƵ Singers.
    • Smyth: Der Wald.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • ONYX.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Gabriel Fauré.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major (from 'The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1')

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 9.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture (from 'Ruslan and Lyudmila')

    Orchestra: Tokyo Musashino Academia Musicae Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kálmán Berkes.
    • Hungaroton.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Jun 2026 06:30