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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 [email protected].

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Music Played

  • Sergei Rachmaninov

    How fair this spot arr Rot

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Michael Rot. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Aki Saulière. Performer: Béatrice Muthelet. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Paul Meyer.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto, Op. 102 & Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    In Paradisum (Requiem, Op 48)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 14.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata in E major BWV 1016 - mov. 1

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Frederick Delius

    By the River (Florida Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Essential Delius - Various.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    My feet may take a little while

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Tristan Hambleton.
    • Day of These Days.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Danny Elfman

    Ice Dance (Edward Scissorhands)

    Ensemble: The Paulist Choristers of California. Conductor: Shirley Walker.
    • Edward Scissorhands.
    • Geffen.
    • 7.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Promenade 1 (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 5 "Spring" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 "Spring", 9 'Kreutzer" & 3.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute: Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Bryn Terfel: Tutto Mozart!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 1 in E minor (2nd movement: Largo, maestoso)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March: Seventeen come Sunday

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.10 in E Major H.54 'Nocturne Pastorale'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'The Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Sony/RCA Red Seal.

  • Tunde Jegede

    Mandé Suite - Tabarah

    Performer: Tunde Jegede. Orchestra: NOK Orchestra.
    • Invocation.
    • 4.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Illia Ovcharenko. Orchestra: MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Oksana Lyniv.
    • Manu Sinistra.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Piotr Nawrot

    Naranjitay - Huaino

    Choir: Arakaendar Bolivia Choir. Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • Florilegium and Arakaendar Bolivia Choir: Bolivian Baroque, Vol. 3.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 17.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Both Sides Now

    Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • BIS.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of Spring

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2021 / New Year's Concert 2021 / Concert du Nouvel An 2021.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Ina Boyle

    The Joy of Earth

    Orchestrator: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • The Joy of Earth (Orchestrated by Roderick Williams).
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.1 (op. 38) in B flat major "Spring"; 4. Allegro animato

    Orchestra: Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Zequinha de Abreu

    Tico Tico

    Composer: Charlie Parker. Performer: Lucie Horsch. Ensemble: Fuse.
    • Origins.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 24.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons: Spring

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 21 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fazil Say.
    • Schubert & Berg: Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Cancan (Orpheus in the Underworld)

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Summer Night Concert 2016.
    • Sony.
    • 11.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Capricho arabe - serenata for guitar

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Ron Goodwin

    New Zealand Suite: Picnic at Rotorua

    Conductor: Ron Goodwin. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Goodwin: Drake 400 Suite / New Zealand Suite.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 3.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor)

    Performer: Marie‐Claire Alain.
    • Great Toccatas: Marie-Claire Alain.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3