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Start the day on the right note 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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Thu 12 Feb 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes for orchestra, No 1 "Nuages"

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Eventide (10th Anniversary Edition).
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise Orchestral Suite (Evening)

    Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben' (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Arcangelo. Performer: Tom Foster. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41, K. 551 "Jupiter" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 202.

  • André Caplet

    A la francaise (Divertissements)

    Performer: Julia Wacker.
    • Widmung.
    • ARS Produktion.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor Z. 730

    Performer: O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Hugo Ticciati.
    • Signum.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Josep Pons.
    • Ravel: Jeux de Miroirs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Christoph Förster

    Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • BIS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 2 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies.
    • Decca.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Laetatus sum for 2 basses, violin, 3 violas and continuo

    Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Performer: Katherine McGillivray. Performer: Richard Boothby. Performer: Anna McDonald. Performer: Rachel Byrt. Performer: Robert Woolley. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet. Singer: Peter Harvey. Singer: Richard Wistreich.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Elegie No 1 (Plainte)

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Teresa Carreno: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Nimbus.
    • 2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale (3rd mvt "Finale")

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Invitation.
    • Pentatone.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo "La Campanella"

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chloë.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Martin Ellerby

    Armada

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Heron.
    • Tributes - Music for Concert Band.
    • MEM Recordings.

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    La Gioconda, Act III: Dance of the Hours

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Snow Maiden, Op. 12, Act II: No. 10, Melodrama (Andantino, quasi Allegretto)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.
    • Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 107.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 59 in A Major, "Fire" (complete)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Sergei Rachmaninov

    4 Piano Pieces (No 4, Gavotte)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 112.

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-9028.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Rose Garden (The Sea Hawk)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold: BBC Phil / Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Feb 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3