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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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

  • Christopher Tin

    Flocks a Mile Wide (The Lost Birds)

    Conductor: Christopher Tin. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Lost Birds.
    • Universal Music Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio in B-Flat Major "Gassenhauer" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Anne Gastinel. Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • naive classique.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Jeanne Kufferath

    Simple histoire (Deux Pieces)

    Performer: Lise Vandersmissen.
    • Lise Vandersmissen: Our Roots.
    • ETCETERA.
    • 2.

  • Jeanne Kufferath

    Autrefois (Deux Pieces)

    Performer: Lise Vandersmissen.
    • Lise Vandersmissen: Our Roots.
    • ETCETERA.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

    Choir: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann. Singer: Núria Rial. Singer: Wiebke Lehmkuhl. Singer: Benedikt Kristjánsson. Singer: Matthias Winckhler.
    • Carus.

  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Erwin und Elmire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Peter Gülke.
    • Masters of the Goethe Era.
    • Capriccio.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka No 3

    Performer: Yulianna Avdeeva.
    • Chopin Voyage.
    • Pentatone.
    • 111.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9.
    • Pentatone.
    • 7.

  • Duke Ellington

    The Giggling Rapids (The River - suite)

    Orchestrator: Ron Collier. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Pulchrae sunt genae tuae (Song of Songs)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Palestrina: Song of Songs.
    • CORO.
    • 6.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell: Overture

    Conductor: Michele Mariotti. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 901.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano Quintet in C Major, Op 114 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Performer: Leon Bosch. Ensemble: I Musicanti.
    • Schubert & Hummel: Piano Quintets.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 104.

  • Jerome Kern

    Ol' Man River

    Singer: Sir Willard White. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Willard White - My Way.
    • SonyBMG.
    • 003.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Ensemble: Kanneh-Masons.
    • Decca.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Florentino Calvo. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.
    • Airlines.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A Minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stanislav Bogunia.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D Major (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Polonaise de concert in D Major

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Samuele Telari. Performer: Thomas Carroll.
    • Violin Café.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring Suite for orchestra

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Il trovatore, Act II: Anvil Chorus

    Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Michael Daugherty

    Blue Electra (I. Courage)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
    • Michael Daugherty: Blue Electra, Last Dance at the Surf & To the New World.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Monday06:30
    BBC Radio 3