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Rise and shine 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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Music Played

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O viridissima Virga, Ave

    Ensemble: Sequentia. Director: Barbara Thornton.
    • Canticles of Ecstasy.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 011.

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt, Serenade)

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Mirare.
    • 111.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Silouan's Song

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • WARNER.

  • Adrian Sutton

    Polperro Beach (5 Miniatures)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Seal.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV1080: Contrapunctus 1 & Contrapunctus 2

    Performer: Maria Perrotta.
    • En Phases.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione

    Performer: Caroline Dale. Performer: John Anderson. Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra.
    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Dharma Records.
    • 11.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Bamboula

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Summertime.
    • DECCA.
    • 16.

  • William Byrd

    Civitas sancti tui

    Music Arranger: David Fraser. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
    • Now the Green Blade Riseth: Choral Music for Easter.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 6.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer, Z. 570: No. 2, Rondeau (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Time Travel.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 26.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    'Young Juliet' and 'Friar Lawrence' (10 Pieces from 'Romeo and Juliet')

    Performer: Antoine Préat.

  • Johannes Meinardus Coenen

    Nocturne (Andante)

    Performer: Jacques Zoon. Orchestra: Radio Kamerorkest. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Leos Janáček

    Moon Waltz (The Excursions of Mr Broucek - Suite)

    Music Arranger: Jaroslav Smolka. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Janacek: The Eternal Gospel; The Excursions of Mr Broucek.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto no.1 in B Flat Minor Op.23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Mirios Classics.

  • William Walton

    Touch Her Soft Lips (Henry V)

    Music Arranger: Bob Chilcott. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Sun, Moon, Sea and Stars: Songs and Arrangements by Bob Chilcott.
    • Signum Records.
    • 21.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Nature, Life and Love: In Nature's Realm, Op. 91, B. 168

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9.
    • Pentatone.
    • 5.

  • Max Bruch

    8 Pieces (Op.83), no.1 in A minor: Andante

    Performer: Ralph Manno. Performer: Guido Schiefen. Performer: Liese Klahn. Ensemble: ensemble incanto.
    • Johannes Brahms/Max Bruch.
    • EBS.
    • 5.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum mobile Op.257

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 7, And He Shall Purify

    Lyricist: Trad.. Conductor: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Irish Baroque Choir.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Linn Records.
    • 7.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 119: 1st movement

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Cello Concer.
    • Hyperion.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Bk.1)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Debussy: Preludes: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Alexander Arutiunian

    Trumpet Concerto

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Petr Popelka.
    • Echoes: Trumpet concertos by Arutiunian, Penderecki and Weinberg.
    • LAWO Classics.

  • Michael Tippett

    5 Spirituals from A Child of our Time (By and by)

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • Greater Love.
    • GOTHIC.
    • 13.

  • John Foulds

    April- England

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • LYRITA.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Tarantella (The Lady and the Fool)

    Music Arranger: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Romantic Ballets: Karajan, Lanchbery, Mackerras, Previn, etc..
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

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