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Brighten 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

  • Franz Schubert

    Ungarische Melodie, D. 817

    Performer: George Fu.
    • Solitude with Schubert.
    • Platoon.
    • 14.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 44 in E Minor "Trauer": II. Menuet. Allegretto. Trio

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1: I. Allegro (transcr. for piccolo trumpet)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess, a Symphonic Picture: VII. Bess, You Is My Woman Now

    Music Arranger: Robert Russell Bennett. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • An American Dream?.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: I. Prelude

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The English Suites, BWV 806-811.
    • Hyperion.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique, H. 48: II. Un bal. Valse

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Henriette Renié

    Danse des Lutins

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • Nightscapes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    Idillo-concertino in A major, Op.15 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andrea Tenaglia. Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
    • Complete Wind Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Adela Maddison

    Piano Quintet: IV. Allegro vivo

    Performer: Manon Galy. Performer: Raphaëlle Moreau. Performer: Léa Hennino. Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Adela Maddison: Quintette avec piano: IV. Allegro vivo.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 1.

  • Nobuo Uematsu

    Frozen Tears (Merregnon: Heart of Ice)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eckehard Stier.
    • Uematsu: Merregnon: Heart of Ice: Frozen Tears.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, KV 595: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, KV 37 & 27, KV 595, Clarinet Concerto, KV 622.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Mallorca (Barcarola), Op. 202

    Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams.
    • Albeniz: Granada; Asturias; Mallorca; Cordoba; Torre Bermeja; Cadiz; Zambra; Tan.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka (Ballet), K 12: I. The Shrovetide Fair

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka, Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection": II. Andante moderato

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 2.
    • Pentatone.
    • 102.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in B Minor, Op. 3 No. 10, RV 580 (3rd movement)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 28.

  • Fernande Decruck

    Aquarium

    Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Fernande Decruck: Aquarium.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Rose Adagio (The Sleeping beauty Op.66)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Mark Ermler.
    • Sleeping Beauty (Complete).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.

  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances (No 8 in G Minor)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances.
    • Pentatone.
    • 108.

  • Ina Boyle

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: III. Allegro, ma non troppo

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Women.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 12.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Chanson française (Chants populaires)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • DECCA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op 92: IV. Allegro con brio

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 6-9.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Keyboard Sonata in D major, Op 10 No 2

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Mel Bonis

    Trois femmes de légende: No. 1, Ophélie

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet in A Major (Trout): IV. Theme - Andantino - Vars 1-5 - Allegretto

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Hwayoon Lee. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Performer: Roman Patkoló.
    • Schubert: Forellenquintett - Trout Quintet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

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