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Launch the day 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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Music Played

  • Bryce Dessner

    Suite for Harp: Movement III

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • The Glass Effect (The Music of Philip Glass & Others).
    • Masterworks.
    • 4.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Dolly Suite, Op. 56: No. 1, Berceuse. Allegretto

    Orchestrator: Henri Rabaud. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Faure: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 7.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 45: II. Andante

    Ensemble: Trio Laflamme.
    • Farrenc: Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 45: II. Andante.
    • Evidence Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    5 Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 1, Élégie in E-Flat Minor

    Performer: Alexander Malofeev.
    • Forgotten Melodies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Cantata No 147)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Trad.

    Scarborough Fair

    Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • DECCA.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

    Performer: Felix Kliese. Music Arranger: Wolfgang Renz. Orchestra: I Solisti di Pavia.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.
  • Charles Martin Loeffler

    Octet: I. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Graeme Steele Johnson. Performer: David Shifrin. Performer: Bridget Kibbey. Performer: Stella Chen. Performer: Siwoo Kim. Performer: Matthew Lipman. Performer: Samuel DeCaprio. Performer: Sam Suggs.
    • Forgotten Sounds.
    • Delos.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K.334: .III. Menuetto - Trio

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Janiczek.
    • Mozart: Divertimento K.334 & Oboe Quartet K.370.
    • Linn Records.
    • 9.
  • Andrea Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Music Arranger: Angela Morley. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • The Essential Itzhak Perlman.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: III. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja. Performer: Cécile Colinet. Performer: Sacha Hannecart-Ségal. Performer: Arsène Brucker. Performer: Camille Vauchez.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor" & Quintet for Piano and Winds,.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Paul Simon

    ĢƵless

    Composer: Joseph Shabalala. Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Singer: Laura Mvula.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Debussy and Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony no.1 Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ĢƵ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Finale

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Ensemble: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Warner.
  • John Playford

    Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Rubicon RCD1017.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse marche

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 4 in D Minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Price: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor: III. Juba. Allegro.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26: III. Finale. Allegro energico

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • Johan Dalene plays Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams.
    • BIS Records.
    • 6.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2: III. Allegro

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Henriëtte Bosmans

    Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: II. Scherzo

    Performer: Gemma Rosefield. Orchestra: ĢƵ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: II. Scherzo.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major D. 435 I. Allegro

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & No. 6.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    Odessa Bulgar

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Benjamin Günst. Performer: Jenő Lisztes. Performer: Omar Massa. Performer: Joscho Stephan. Singer: Stéphane Logerot.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto, Op. 40, No. 2: III. Allegro

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 10.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: First Movement

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • 1.
  • Juliette Pochin

    The Path of Happiness

    Performer: James Morgan. Performer: Adrian Bradbury. Choir: Poor Clare Sisters Arundel.
    • My Peace I Give You.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 15.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 7 in E Major: III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell - Trio

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

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