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Boost your morning 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

  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne

    Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Decca.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Kr. 76 "Die Rettung der Andromeda durch Perseus"

    Conductor: Hanspeter Gmür. Orchestra: Failoni Chamber Orchestra Budapest.
    • Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 4 - 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Eintritt; Einsame Blumen; Herberge (Waldszenen, Op 82)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Pan Ist Meister, Laßt Ihn Gehn!' (The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan)

    Conductor: René Jacobs. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Singer: Kurt Azesberger.
    • JS Bach: Cantates profanes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

  • Claude Debussy

    La cathedrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Baptist Vanhal

    Bassoon Concerto in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ondřej Šindelář. Ensemble: Risonanza Praga.
    • Bassoon Concertos.
    • SUPRAHON.
    • 6.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Balada de la doncella enamorada (El Decameron negro)

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

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Dances for Orchestra (no.3)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn In Birmingham Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    String Quartet No 3 'Slavonic' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Glazunov: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 110.

  • Ivo Antognini

    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Conductor: Christopher Lowrey. Choir: Ensemble Altera.
    • The Four Elements.
    • Pentatone.
    • 103.

  • Manuel de Falla

    The Corregidor's dance (The Three-cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Falla: El sombrero de tres picos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 107.

  • Trad.

    Zambra

    Music Arranger: Matthew Higham. Ensemble: Chineke! Wind Ensemble.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35 'Haffner' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 36, Violin Concerto No. 3.
    • Aparté.
    • 1.

  • Nino Rota

    Trombone Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alain Trudel. Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Rota: La Strada Suite / Harp Concerto / Trombone Concerto.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 13.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Se pieta di me non senti (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Bach, Handel.
    • Erato.
    • 14.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in F sharp major, Op15 no.2

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Chopin/Liszt/Ravel: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition (Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Zander.
    • Brattle Media.

  • Philip Herbert

    Sonatina for Double Bass and Piano: Rondo

    Performer: Leon Bosch. Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • The British Double Bass Sonatina.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 8.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Water Music (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Homages for Wind.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 'The Clock'

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Haydn: London Symphonies Vol.1.
    • Sony.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Prague Carnival

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Smetana: Orchestral Works Vol. 1: BBC Phil, Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (The Wasps)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

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