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Breakfast with the best 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

  • Charles Ives

    Symphony No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Francis Poulenc

    Novelette No 1 (Modéré sans lenteur)

    Performer: Sarah Beth Briggs.
    • Small Treasures.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 16.

  • George Walker

    String quartet No. 1, "Lyric" (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered Vol. 3.
    • Azica.
    • 8.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.21 in E minor

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Der lieben Sonne Licht und Pracht, BWV 446

    Performer: Wouter Möller. Performer: Bob van Asperen. Singer: Klaus Mertens.
    • J.S. Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch.
    • CPO.
    • 201.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    L'Art du chant appliqué au piano (based on 'Casta diva' from Bellini's Norma)

    Performer: Jean‐Paul Gasparian. Music Arranger: Sigismond Thalberg.
    • Naive Classique.

  • Ayanna Witter-Johnson

    Windrush reflections; I. Mango Dreams

    Ensemble: The Dionysus Ensemble.
    • The Dionysus Ensemble.

  • William Walton

    Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (from Henry V)

    Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Johannes Witt.
    • Kiss of Fire.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona (Canzoni Book 3, Op 12)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 30.

  • Jules Massenet

    Autumn Thought

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Jules Massenet: Songs with Orchestra.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Rondo all'Ongarese (Piano Trio in G major H.15.25 'Gypsy Rondo')

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Albert Brüggen. Performer: Tom Foster.
    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Orchid Music Limited.

  • Erland Cooper

    Sula bassana - Excerpt I

    Conductor: Erland Cooper. Conductor: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sula bassana.
    • Mercury Classics / Universal Music Group.
    • 1.

  • John Mahon

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Colin Lawson. Conductor: Peter Holman. Orchestra: The Parley of Instruments.
    • English Classical Clarinet Concertos (English Orpheus 39).
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 (Italian) - 1st mvt

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mendelssohn: The 5 Symphonies.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 401.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • ONYX.

  • Robert Schumann

    Romance No 2

    Ensemble: Ars ad Mundum.
    • Collage.
    • GWK Records.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Musette Op 24

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Irina Zahharenkova.
    • Lise Cristiani.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 1-4; Paganini Rhapsody.
    • Hyperion.

  • Eric Coates

    The Three Bears

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Symphonic Eric Coates.
    • Chandos.
    • 003.

  • Rick Wakeman

    Cyril Wolverine

    Performer: Rick Wakeman. Ensemble: The Orion Strings. Conductor: Guy Protheroe. Choir: English Chamber Choir.
    • Piano Odyssey.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Laudamus te (Gloria in D Major)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Singer: Tessa Bonner. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • Vivaldi: Ostro Picta & Gloria - Bach: Magnificat.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53 for wind ensemble

    Performer: Alex Jakeman. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Performer: Alyson Frazier. Performer: Elise Campbell. Performer: Mark van de Wiel. Performer: Jonathan Parkin. Performer: Graham Hobbs.
    • Winds of Change.
    • Three Worlds Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Tunde Jegedy

    Jairaby Ballad

    • Tunde Jegedy.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod (Enigma Variations, Op. 36)

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Warner.

  • Charles‐Valentin Alkan

    Aesop's Feast (12 Studies in the Minor Keys)

    Performer: Tiffany Poon.
    • Nature.
    • Pentatone.
    • 105.

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