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Roll out of bed into 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

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major, Op.31 (2nd mvt: Canzonetta)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Summer Nights.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 1.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
    • Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 8.
    • CPO.
    • 203.

  • Emeli Sandé

    Where I Sleep

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Eventide (10th Anniversary Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    Londonderry Air / Danny Boy

    Composer: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
    • DECCA.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Peasant Cantata, BWV 212 (Aria: Klein-zschocher musse)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon. Singer: Suzie LeBlanc.
    • Bach: Coffee Cantata, Peasant Cantata.
    • Analekta.
    • 24.

  • Franz Lehár

    The Merry Widow (Entracte Act 2)

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Opera House and Museum Orchestra. Conductor: Joana Mallwitz.
    • Lehár: Die lustige Witwe (Live).
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 210.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Suite in E Minor: I. Allemande

    Performer: Virgile Barthe.
    • Virgile Barthe Guitar Recital.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Suite in E Minor: II. Courante

    Performer: Virgile Barthe.
    • Virgile Barthe Guitar Recital.
    • Naxos.
    • 105.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in G Minor "Cat's Fugue"

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonatas.
    • BIS.
    • 901.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Prelude

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in D Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zefira Valova. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Benda, Graun, Saint-Georges, Sirmen: Violin Concertos.
    • Aparté.
    • 9.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my Prayer: O for the wings of a dove

    Performer: Edward Picton-Turbervill. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha. Singer: Oliver Brown.
    • The Call - More Choral Classics from St John's.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa Fantasie, Op.89

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 85 "La Reine" (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Ádám Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 5.
    • Naxos.
    • 106.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 / Act 1 - "Là ci darem la mano"

    Lyricist: Lorenzo Da Ponte. Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Romantic Mozart.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 78.

  • Franz Liszt

    Pastorale S. 508

    Performer: Michael Kaykov.
    • Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 69.
    • Naxos.
    • 102.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • John Philip Sousa

    The Liberty bell - march

    Ensemble: The Band of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor: Major Roger G. Swift.
    • DENON.

  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Lament)

    Performer: Catriona McKay. Performer: Chris Stout. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Michele Mariotti.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 501.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    6 Morceaux, Op. 11: IV. Valse

    Performer: Charles Owen. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Rachmaninov: Two-Piano Suites / Six Morceaux, Op. 11.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 12.

  • Krzysztof Penderecki

    3 Pieces in Old Style: No. 1, Aria

    Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Penderecki: Sinfoniettas; Oboe Capriccio.
    • Naxos.
    • 001.

  • Ethel Smyth

    March Of The Women

    Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Suffrage Sinfonia. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • The Lost Women Of Music.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence Op.70 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70: IV. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70: IV. Allegro vivace.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ennio Morricone

    The Ecstacy Of Gold

    Conductor: Ennio Morricone. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir.
    • Morricone Conducts Morricone.
    • EuroArts Music International.
    • 13.

  • Hector Berlioz

    La Damnation de Faust (Song of the Flea)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berlioz: La damnation de Faust.
    • Lso Live.
    • 112.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op 11

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 62.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • ECM.

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