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Start the day on the right note with classical music

John Toal presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Tue 31 Mar 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43: No. 6, To Spring

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Piano Book.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    There Will Come Soft Rains

    Choir: Valsts Akadēmiskais koris "Latvija". Conductor: Māris Sirmais.
    • From the Dim and Distant Past.
    • State Choir Latvija.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Schumann: Piano Quartet - Piano Quintet.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73 (2nd mvmt, Adagio ma non troppo)

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Peter Ruzicka.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 - Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 - Widmann: Dr.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Sicilian

    Performer: Rodolfo Richter. Performer: James Johnstone.
    • Metronome.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Persee - Tragedie In A Prologue And 5 Acts - Overture

    Director: Hervé Niquet. Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Singer: Mathias Vidal. Singer: Hélène Guilmette. Singer: Katherine Watson. Singer: Tassis Christoyannis. Singer: Jean Teitgen. Singer: Chantal Santon Jeffery. Singer: Marie Lenormand. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Singer: Marie Kalinine. Singer: Thomas Dolié. Singer: Zachary Wilder.
    • Alpha : 967.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va, pensiero (Nabucco)

    Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Verdi: Nabucco: David Parry.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Marguerite Monnot

    Improvisation sur "L'hymne à l'amour"

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Charles Aznavour: La bohème.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op. 6, Nr. 1, HWV 319

    Conductor: Max Pommer. Ensemble: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1-12.
    • Capriccio.
    • 1.

  • Paul Mealor

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 15.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Act 2, No 10: Scene)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 In A, Op. 92 - 1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace

    Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7; Shostakovich: Festive Overture.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem)

    Choir: Chorus Musicus Köln. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • NAIVE.

  • Antoine Reicha

    Piano Trio No. 1 - IV. Finale. Presto in E-Flat Major, Op. 101: IV. Finale

    Ensemble: Trio Bohémo.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Suite Scaramouche, para Dos Pianos: Brasileira

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Daniel Rivera.
    • Martha Argerich - Daniel Rivera, en el Teatro El Círculo de Rosario, Vol. 2.
    • Irco Video.
    • 8.

  • Florence Price

    Violin Concerto no.1 in D Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Er-Gene Kahng. Orchestra: Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava. Conductor: Ryan Cockerham.
    • Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Albany Records.
    • 2.

  • Paco Peña

    Ayer y Hoy en el Baile

    Composer: Dani de Morón. Performer: Paco Peña. Performer: Rafael Montilla.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London town) - overture (Op.40)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne

    Composer: Maria Theresia von Paradis. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet Vol 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 04.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Standing as I do before God

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short. Singer: Emma Walshe.
    • Standing as I do before God.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barbe-bleue (Overture)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Philips.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess / Act II: It ain't necessarily so

    Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Lyricist: DuBose Heyward. Lyricist: Dorothy Heyward. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel. Choir: Swedish Radio Choir.
    • Bad Boys.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Tue 31 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3