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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

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Whitacre: Cloudburst & other choral works: Polyphony, Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Grand duo concertant, Op. 48; 2nd mvt

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Mikhail Pletnev - The Piano Aesthete.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 31.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Rhapsody for string quartet

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Britten: Complete Music for String Quartet.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Cantata: No 1 Sinfonia

    Performer: Ashley Solomon. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Telemann: Concerto in A Major from Tafelmusik, Pt. 1 - Bach: Non sa che sia dolo.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.

  • Peter Warlock

    Pieds en l'air & Mattachins (Capriol suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Clio Gould.
    • Apex.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in D major Kk.491

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Scarlatti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    The Farmer's Boy

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Bell.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Night music: The English Concert/Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Henry Litolff

    Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major Op.56 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Chaconne of the Scaramouches)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre Du Roi Soleil: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Sa.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Antonio Rosetti

    Horn Concerto in E major, C50/III:44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Ensemble: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Johannes Moesus.
    • CPO.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Tea)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 17.

  • Leigh Harline

    When You Wish Upon a Star (From "Pinocchio", 1940) [In the Style of R. Strauss]

    Music Arranger: Donald Fraser. Conductor: Donald Fraser. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Heigh-Ho! Mozart: Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Great Classical Composer.
    • Delos.
    • 16.

  • José Pablo Moncayo

    Huapango

    Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Conductor: Alondra de la Parra.
    • My Mexican Soul: Alondra de la Parra.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

    Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • Gallo Record Company.

  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quartet in C minor: 3) Scherzo

    Ensemble: The Maier Quartet.
    • Caprice.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Primavera (Trittico Botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa, Il tramonto & Trittico botticelliano.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    4 Chansons pour enfants, FP 75: No. 1, Nous voulons une petite sœur

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Jean Nohain. Singer: Felicity Lott.
    • Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (Hyperion French Song Edition).
    • Hyperion.
    • 29.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op. 58: II. Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Owen. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 04.

  • Rita Strohl

    Grande fantaisie-quintette: II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Ismaël Margain. Ensemble: Quatuor Hanson.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 29.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 in G major, 'Surprise'

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Ernest Moeran

    Prelude for cello & piano

    Performer: Tim Gill. Performer: Mary Dullea.
    • Ernest Moeran: Chamber Music.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 7.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Cirandas, W 220: No. 14, A canoa virou (Arr. for Guitar Quartet by Tadeu do Amar

    Music Arranger: Tadeu do Amaral. Ensemble: Brazilian Guitar Quartet.
    • Brazilian Guitar Quartet Plays Villa-Lobos.
    • Delos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thursday 06:30
    BBC Radio 3