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Brighten your day with classical music

Al Ryan presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole (1st mvt 'Prelude a la nuit')

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • ONYX.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Deborah's Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • The Genius of Film Music. Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s-80s.
    • LPO.
    • 4.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV 243 (1st - 4th mvts)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 2: Juba

    Ensemble: Avalon String Quartet.
    • Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Adagio from Oboe concerto in D minor (transcribed for trumpet & orchestra)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 29 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Alfredo Catalani

    Contemplazione

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masters.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Herbert Schuch. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Tung-Chieh Chuang.
    • BERLIN 1923 - Beethoven & Schulhoff: Piano Concertos.
    • Avi-music.
    • 3.
  • Helen Leach

    Diary of the Bee: I. Bluebell

    Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.
    • Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach.
    • Divine Art.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Holbrooke

    Violin Concerto in F Major Op.59 'The Grasshopper (1st mvt)

    Performer: Judith Ingolfsson. Orchestra: Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Holbrooke: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2.
    • CPO.
    • 201.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine (Officium Defunctorum)

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Lux Aeterna.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square (On the Town)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture-Suite in G Major, 'Burlesque de Quixotte' (His Fight with the Windmills)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Masques. Director: Olivier Fortin.
    • Alpha.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Symphony No.2 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: ĢƵ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • ONYX.
  • Gerald Finzi

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

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM.
    • 15.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo (Toccata)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Owen. Orchestra: ĢƵ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations

    Orchestra: ĢƵ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Elgar: Enigma Variations; In the South & Other Orchestral Works.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Brahms: String Sextets.
    • ALPHA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets RV.537

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Performer: Reinhold Friedrich. Orchestra: I Musici.
    • Philips.

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