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Breakfast with the best classical music

Linton Stephens 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

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A Major "Trout Quintet" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Edgar Francis. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • River of Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Oskar Merikanto

    Romance, Op 12

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jorma Panula.
    • FINNISH ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES.
    • NAXOS.
    • 003.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Aria in F Major, BWV 587

    Ensemble: Ensemble Théodora.
    • Tranquilles Cœurs.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 29.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivión

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Fairy Tales: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 17.

  • Imogen Holst

    Out of your sleep arise and wake

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • THE CROWN OF LIFE: Leighton, Clarke, Holst, Darke.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 110.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quintet No. 4 in D Major G 448 IV. Fandango

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Baroque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Allegretto scherzando from 3 Intermezzi Op.13

    Performer: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan. Performer: Dominic Degavino.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 11.

  • Lucie Horsch

    Tilibo (2 Improvisations)

    Composer: Bao Sissoko. Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Bao Sissoko.
    • Origins.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 21.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands; God is gone up

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Ricardo Castro

    Intermezzo de Atzimba

    Conductor: Alondra de la Parra. Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.
    • My Mexican Soul.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård. Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra.
    • English Cello Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Louis Spohr

    Quintet for Piano & Winds Op 52 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Romantique.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude Op 25 No 1, Aeolian Harp

    Performer: Danny Driver.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (1877 Linz Version, Ed. L. Nowak): III. Scherzo

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 3.

  • Bobby McFerrin

    Song for Amadeus (Improvisation on Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 28

    Composer: Chick Corea. Performer: Chick Corea. Singer: Bobby McFerrin.
    • The Mozart Sessions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Travel Royal - Suite

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Doreen Carwithen: Film Music.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 13.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Après un rêve

    Performer: Daniel Lozakovich. Performer: Hélène Mercier.
    • Fauré: Après un rêve.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzon No. 2 (Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2010)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rossini: Overtures And Arias / Latin American Favorites (Live From Walt Disney C.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Multiple Instruments in F (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per una vita.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 226.

  • James Oswald

    The Caledonian Pocket Companion: Hugar Mu Fean

    Ensemble: La Rêveuse. Director: Florence Bolton. Director: Benjamin Perrot.
    • London circa 1740: Handel's musicians.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 14.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 1.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Caritas Abundat

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • Rising.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3