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Wake up your senses 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

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations, S. 172: No. 3, Lento placido

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Julie Cooper. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • PRISM, Vol. 2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rusalka: Song to the Moon

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin.
    • River of Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite for Violin & String Orchestra: Country Scenery

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Sibelius: Works for Violin & Orchestra.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 14.

  • Laurie Christman

    Rolling Fields

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Navona.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande & Bourrée (Lute suite in E minor BWV.996)

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bourrée & Gigue (Lute suite in E minor BWV.996)

    Music Arranger: Sean Shibe.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tre minuetti, SC 61: II. Minuetto no 2

    Music Arranger: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 11.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Guillaume Bellom.
    • Pärt: Tabula Rasa.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Madrigali, Op. 1, Book I: No. 13, L'amante modesto

    Music Arranger: Alex Fortes. Ensemble: Brompton Quartet.
    • Constellations.
    • Platoon.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (Unfinished): II. Andante con moto

    Music Arranger: Mario Venzago. Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Schubert: Symphonie Nos. 4 & 7.
    • Solo Musica.
    • 6.

  • Rafael Bullumba Landestoy

    El vals de Santa Domingo

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Danse Macabre

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Yasushi Akutagawa

    Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andantino

    Orchestra: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryūsuke Numajiri.
    • Japanese Orchestral Favourites.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Hiawatha Overture, Op.30

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 1.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Binge: Elizabethan Serenade, Scottish Rhapsody & Other Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major: II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • Platoon.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto No. 9 in D Major: I. Allegro

    Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in E flat major, Op 119, No 4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms: Handel Variations op.24 etc.: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Franz Schreker

    Romantische Suite: III. Intermezzo (In sanfter Bewegung)

    Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Schreker: Romantische Suite: III. Intermezzo (In sanfter Bewegung).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Marianna Martines

    Psalm 110: I. Dixit Dominus

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • jpc schallplatten Versandhandels GmbH.
    • 01.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Suite española No. 1, Op. 47: Asturias (Leyenda)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • 吉他挚爱.
    • Go East Music Entertainment Consulting Limited.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: I. Non allegro

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Rachmanonoff: Symphonic Dances.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Trad.

    Pericondine / Fair Isle Jig

    Music Arranger: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen. Music Arranger: Frederik Øland. Music Arranger: Asbjørn Nørgaard. Music Arranger: Fredrik Sjölin. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita': Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo. Vivace.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

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