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Launch the day with classical music

Al Ryan 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

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1

    Music Arranger: Auguste Franchomme. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Sol Gabetta Cello.
    • Sony.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris - Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    4 Scottish dances Op.59 (Scottish Waltz)

    Performer: Hugh Bean. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: IV. Menuet - Trio I - Polonaise

    • J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • Lso Live.
    • 105.

  • Richard Alison

    The Batchelar's Delight (Morley's First Booke)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Morley. Ensemble: The Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.

  • Mel Bonis

    Soir - Matin, Op. 76: I. Soir. Andante cantabile

    • Art nouveau: French chamber music around 1900.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Mel Bonis

    Soir - Matin, Op. 76: II. Matin. Andantino

    • Art nouveau: French chamber music around 1900.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trio Sonata for Recorder and Violin in A Minor, TWV 42:a4: I. Largo

    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trio Sonata for Recorder and Violin in A Minor, TWV 42:a4: IV. Allegro

    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif, très rythmé

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif, très rythmé.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Lanchbery

    The Tales of Beatrix Potter (film ballet): The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Sergei Rachmaninov

    Polka de V. R.

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Rachmaninoff Autumn Study Vibes.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 36.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Concerto No 3 in B flat major, Op 11 (3rd mvt, Alla polacca)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Crusell: Clarinet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • ONYX.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Symphonic Suite based on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

    Composer: Aleksandar Sedlar.
    • Baïka.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ball at the Castle (Hamlet, Op 116)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Shostakovich: Concertos, Orchestral Suites, Chamber Symphonies.
    • Decca.

  • Kurt Weill

    Je ne t'aime pas

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Håvard Gimse.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 22.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Meditation 5: In green pastures (Meditations on a theme of John Blow)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations on a Theme by John Blow.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Music Arranger: Mikhail Parhamovsky. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Thomas Carroll.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Feb 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3