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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

  • Anna Clyne

    Color Field: Yellow

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Anna Clyne: Abstractions.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 3 'Polish' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polonaise & Coronation March.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 - LIVE Cheltenham

    Performer: Santiago Cañón-Valencia.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • DG.
    • 31.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O gloriosissimi lux

    Ensemble: Sequentia. Conductor: Benjamin Bagby.
    • Hildegard von Bingen - Celestial Hierarchy.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Spartacus Suites: SNO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Irving Berlin

    I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ed Thigpen. Singer: Ray Brown.
    • Oscar Peterson: Legendary Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Piano Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 in A major "Italian" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the steppes of central Asia

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Valery Gergiev: The Greatest Russian Classical Music (Russian).
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 25.

  • James MacMillan

    Os Mutorum

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Anam: Music to Move the Soul.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 3.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Folk Festival (The Gadfly)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.2: BBC Phil, Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a (V. Barrel Organ Waltz)

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.2: BBC Phil, Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Edvard Grieg

    The Gadfly Said to the Fly

    Performer: Håkon Austbø.
    • Grieg: Complete Piano Works.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    The Bridal Procession Passes

    Performer: Håkon Austbø.
    • Grieg: Complete Piano Works.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, Pt.2, no.42; Hallelujah [chorus]

    Conductor: Robert Shaw. Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
    • A Christmas Concert with Robert Shaw.
    • Vox.
    • 20.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Spring (The Sicilian Vespers)

    Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Easter Sonata: III. Scherzo. Allegretto

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Sigur Rós

    Fljótavík

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Emma Denton. Performer: Sam Becker. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos incld. Listening Guide.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Ariel Ramírez

    Misa Criolla: II. Gloria

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Michael Metzler. Performer: Rubén Dubrovsky. Performer: Sebastián Sciaraffia. Ensemble: Palau de la Música Vocal Quartet. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Ramírez: Misa Criolla: II. Gloria (Version for Solo Violin, Vocal Quartet, Percu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX CLASSICS.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143: Ballabile

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Performer: Andrei Korobeinikov.
    • The French Album.
    • Platoon.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Jarre

    Lara's Theme (Doctor Zhivago)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • SILVA SCREEN RECORDS.

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