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Rise and shine 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

  • Patrick Hadley

    Kinder Scout

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moments musicaux in C major, Op.16 no.6

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Flute and Oboe Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Janos Balint. Performer: Lajos Lencsés. Ensemble: Budapest Strings.
    • Salieri: La Veneziana.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Singer: Marie‐Claude Chappuis. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Matthaus-Passion.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Dolly Suite: Dolly's Garden

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • G. Fauré: Requiem op.48 / Dolly Suite op.56 / Pavane op.50.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String quartet No 21 in D major, K 575 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Barbican Quartet.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraum no.3 in A flat major

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Liszt: La campanella.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto in E-Flat Major (1st)

    Performer: Anaëlle Tourret. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Perspectives Concertantes.
    • Es-Dur.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduttione teatrale in F major Op 4 No 2

    Orchestra: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • NAIVE.

  • Henryk Górecki

    Symphony No 3, Op 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Gorecki: Symphony No. 3: Dawn Upshaw.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.

  • Otýlie Dvořáková-Suková

    Pepca riding his hobbyhorse

    Performer: Tomáš Víšek.
    • ARCO DIVA.

  • Peter Ludwig Hertel

    Clog Dance (La Fille mal gardée)

    Music Arranger: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • Herold/Lecocq: La Fille mal gardee: Royal Opera House Orchestra/Lanchbery.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74 No. 2 (I. Allegro spiritoso)

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Rachel Portman

    Main Titles (From "The Cider House Rules" Score)

    Performer: John Lenehan. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • The Cider House Rules (Original Score).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie Espagnole (5th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 5.

  • Valerie Coleman

    Umoja

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • Imani Winds.
    • eOne Music International Classics.
    • 12.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Cello Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gavotte en Rondeau from Partita No 3

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Let the bright seraphim (Samson)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 26.

  • Florence Price

    Waltz of the Spring Maid

    Performer: Claire Huangci.
    • Piano Heroines.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 21.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst: The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125 - Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter, Op. 24.
    • Ondine.
    • 104.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Julia Florida

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Profesión.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Daniel Blendulf.
    • Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio in B-Flat Major "Gassenhauer" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Anne Gastinel. Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Trio Op. 11.
    • Believe International.

  • Phyllis Tate

    Alto Saxophone Concerto in B-Flat Major: II. Canzonetta

    Performer: Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo. Orchestra: Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo Orchestra.
    • Lost Saxophone Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 502.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    We Shall Walk Through The Valley

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Haven.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Aug 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3