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Wake up your senses with classical music

Al Ryan presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With 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

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 3 in A flat major

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho.
    • Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Ballades (Deluxe).
    • DG.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    String serenade Op.48 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Morton.
    • Linn.

  • Louis Spohr

    Potpourri

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, komm, mein Herze steht dir offen (Aria from BWV 74)

    Conductor: Christoph Spering. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Singer: Yeree Suh.
    • J.S. Bach: Ziegler Cantatas.
    • Accent.
    • 14.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding-Cake - Caprice-Waltz in A flat major Op.76

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS : CHSA 5162.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 20.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Rückert Lieder: Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

    Performer: Brian Zeger. Singer: Jamie Barton.
    • All Who Wander.
    • Delos.
    • 101.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite Orientale, Op 48 - Mvts 1&2

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet movement in B flat major K.516c

    Orchestrator: Robert Levin. Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Torleif Thedéen.
    • Mozart - Clarinet Concerto; Kegelstatt Trio - Martin Fröst.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Michael Tippett

    Nobody knows (Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)

    Performer: Paul Robertson. Performer: Ivo-Jan van der Werff. Performer: David Matthews. Performer: Anthony Lewis. Performer: Martin Jones. Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Colin Lawson. Performer: Jeremy Cornes. Performer: Michael Copley. Performer: Maurice Hodges. Performer: Evelyn Nallen. Performer: Peter Hamburger. Performer: Martin Westlake. Performer: Graham Ashton. Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir. Director: Stephen Darlington. Ensemble: Medici Quartet.
    • Tippett: Choral Works.
    • Nimbus.
    • 16.

  • Fergus McCreadie

    Forest Floor

    Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: David Bowden. Performer: Stephen Henderson.
    • Forest Floor.
    • Edition Records.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New world - Sibelius: Finlandia.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Franz Krommer

    Octet-Partita in F major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Budapest Wind Ensemble. Director: Kálmán Berkes.
    • Krommer: Partitas for Wind Ensemble Op. 57, 71 and 78: Budapest Wind Ensemble.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (Perpetuum Mobile)

    Performer: Sarah Schuster Ericsson.
    • DORIAN SONO LUMINUS.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiserwalzer, Op. 437

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2021 / New Year's Concert 2021 / Concert du Nouvel An 2021.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F major Kk82

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Il trovatore, Act III: Di quella pira

    Singer: Andrea Bocelli. Choir: Choir of the Florence May Music Festival. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Aria.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 18.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Peter Dugan. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • At Home With Music (Live).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Mikado (Overture)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Orchestra: The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: John Pryce‐Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 6.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 5: No. 4, Minuet - Trio

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke.
    • Hyperion.

  • Selim Palmgren

    Cinderella Suite: IV. Dance of the forest fairies

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: Oulu Sinfonia.
    • Scenes from Finland.
    • Chandos.
    • 112.

  • Selim Palmgren

    Cinderella Suite: V. Waltz

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: Oulu Sinfonia.
    • Scenes from Finland.
    • Chandos.
    • 113.

  • Robert Mackintosh

    Scottish Reels

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels.
    • Delphian.
    • 7.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón no.2

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Baryton Trio in D major H.11.69 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Valencia Baryton Project.
    • Haydn: Baryton Trios.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat K.543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 104.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Les Sylvains Op.60

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Barry

    Moviola (Album Version)

    Conductor: John Barry. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Moviola.
    • Epic Soundtrax.
    • 13.

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