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Start your 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

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Flight from the City (Orphee)

    Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performer: Clarice Jensen. Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Tarn Travers. Performer: Yuki Numata Resnick.
    • DG.

  • Louis Spohr

    Potpourri

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin O’Neill.
    • Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 2 in G Major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven : Revelations, 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 1

    Orchestra: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • J.S. Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraume, No 3

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Liszt: La campanella.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Florence Price

    Five Songs: No. 5, Travel's End

    Performer: Brandon Patrick George. Performer: Bryan Wagorn.
    • The Deep Has Always Known Me.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D. 589 "Little": I. Adagio - Allegro

    Conductor: Kevin John Edusei. Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6.
    • Solo Musica.
    • 5.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • James McMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Purple (A Colour Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bliss: A Colour Symphony etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 001.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G "Gypsy" (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio 1790.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 5.
    • CPO.
    • 203.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo "La Campanella"

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chloë.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Erkki Melartin

    Symphony no.5 in A minor Op.90 'Sinfonia brevis' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • CPO.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana: Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.
    • Great Comedy Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    10 Pièces pittoresques: I. Paysage

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Brahms: Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • John Dowland

    A Fancy

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Jacobean Lute Music.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sinfonia for strings in G minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Venice by Night.
    • Avie.
    • 5-7.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44, TH 60: 1. Allegro brillant

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies and Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Rutland Boughton

    Three Folk Dances for orchestra (Hornpipe)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • R. Boughton: Aylesbury Games etc: Beynon/New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Leoš Janáček

    Sinfonietta, Op. 60, JW VI/18, "Sokol Festival": I. Fanfare. Allegretto - Allegr

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta.
    • Lso Live.
    • 215.

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