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Ease into 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

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Suite in D Major, Op. 49, R. 165: II. Sarabande

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa.
    • Saint-Saëns: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Apres un reve, Op 7 No 1

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Jonathan Ware.
    • Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 2 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    Evening celebration in Venice (3 Part Songs)

    Choir: North German Radio Choir. Conductor: Philipp Ahmann.
    • Es-Dur.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No.5

    Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue, Op. 10

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Marianna Martines

    Sinfonia in C Major : I. Allegro con spirito

    Orchestra: Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey.
    • Sinfonia in C Major: I. Allegro con spirito (Radio Edit).
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Grand March (The Love for Three Oranges)

    Music Arranger: Tamás Batiashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Visions of Prokofiev.
    • DG.
    • 9.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": I. Lebhaft (Live)

    Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen. Orchestra: Verbier Festival Orchestra.
    • Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": I. Lebhaft (Live).
    • Verbier Festival Gold.
    • 1.

  • Felice Anerio

    Ave Regina cælorum

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Sanctissima: Vespers and Benediction for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virg.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Intermezzo: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor op.3 no.2

    Performer: Edward Leung.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Balada de la doncella enamorada (El Decameron negro)

    Performer: John Williams.
    • The Black Decameron.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": IV. Molto allegro

    Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Fantasia on Serbian Themes, Op. 6

    Conductor: Michail Jurowski. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov, N.A.: Mlada Suite / Overture on 3 Russian Themes / Fantasia on.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace

    Performer: Marco Fumo.
    • Elite Sincopations: Marco Fumo plays Scott Joplin.
    • Odradek Records.
    • 13.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A Major, K 209

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Sony.

  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman Overture, Op. 7, H. 42

    Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Serenata andaluza

    Performer: Javier Perianes.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Royal Fireworks Music

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Balsom Ensemble.
    • Royal Fireworks.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem, Op. 48, N. 97: Offertoire

    Choir: Tenebrae. Singer: William Gaunt. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Fauré: Requiem.
    • LSO Live.
    • 11.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Quartet no.1 in E flat major Op.2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Osmo Vänskä. Performer: Pekka Kauppinen. Performer: Anu Airas. Performer: Ilkka Pälli.
    • Finntastic.
    • Bis.
    • 015.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op. 24: III. Waltz

    Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Britten, B.: Piano Concerto / Soirees Musicales / Matinees Musicales.
    • Ondine.
    • 13.

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