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Breakfast with the best 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

  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    En vintersaga, Op. 18: I. Siciliana

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester.
    • Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • jpc schallplatten Versandhandels GmbH.
    • 5.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace - XII. Benedictus

    Performer: Guy Johnson. Choir: National Youth Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • The Armed Man & Other Selected Works.
    • DECCA.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    Symphony no.4 in G minor 'Sinfonia piccola' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite No 3: Gavottes 1 & 2

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Bach.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite No 3: Gigue

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Bach.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 6.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op. 40: III. Gavotte. Allegretto

    Orchestra: 水戸室内管弦楽団. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Grieg: Holberg Suite.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Haydn Wood

    Violin Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in D major, HWV 341, 'Water Piece' (March)

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Michael Bochmann. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Singer: Edward Barham. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Rule Britanna.
    • Nimbus.
    • 5.

  • Mel Bonis

    3 Dances

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Sombart. Conductor: Pierre Vallet. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 23, 27.
    • Rubicon.
    • 203.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Sweet Suffolk Owl

    Performer: Louise Thomson. Choir: Corvus Consort. Conductor: Freddie Crowley.
    • Welcome Joy - A Celebration of Women’s Voices.
    • Chandos.
    • 509.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images, L. 122: No. 2, Ibéria: I. Par les rues et les chemins

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Iberia.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: recreation – Grosses Orchester Graz. Conductor: Michael Hofstetter.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-2 & Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13 (Live).
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in G major (Gloria)

    Choir: Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Poulenc: Stabat Mater; Gloria; Litanies à la Vierge noire.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Études, Op. 40: VI. Pastorale & VII. Intermezzo

    Performer: Nikolay Medvedev.
    • SOMM.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Conductor: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture-Suite B-Dur, TWV 55:B1: I. Ouverture. Lentement, Presto

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Terpsichore: L'apothéose de la danse baroque.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 45.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Brahms Symphony No. 2 - Tragic Overture - Academic Festival Overture.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 6.

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Daydreaming

    Performer: Nils Frahm. Performer: Anoushka Shankar.
    • Chapter I: Forever, For Now.
    • Leiter.

  • John Ireland

    Sarnia: An Island Sequence for Orchestra: III. Song of the Springtides

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Ernest John Moeran: Sketches for Symphony No.2 - John Ireland: Sarnia - An Islan.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 7.

  • Georges Bizet

    L' Arlesienne - suite no. 1

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Pablo González.
    • Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.

  • John Tavener

    The Veil of the Temple, Cycle VII: VII. Mother of God

    Choir: Holst Singers. Choir: Temple Church Choir. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Tavener: The Veil of the Temple.
    • Signum Records.
    • 33.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42: No. 3 - Melodie

    Performer: Charlie Lovell-Jones. Performer: Charles Owen.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (from "Thais")

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

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