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Rise and shine 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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Music Played

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Un Sueno en la Floresta

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Latino.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Waldesruhe (Silent woods)

    Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Brahms, Viotti & Dvořák: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor: Bourrées; Polonaises; Menuet; Badinerie

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 16-19.

  • François Couperin

    Pieces de clavecin, Sixieme ordre: No. 5, Les Barricades Mysterieuses

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • La Danse.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 2.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro Te Devote

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Adoro Te Devote & Miserere.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Hungarian Dances [nos. 1, 3 and 10]

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

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: No. 2, Valse

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Paul Desmond

    Take Five

    Ensemble: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • Hits of the World 1960-61.
    • Polygram.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in A major K.331 (Rondo alla turca)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Joaquín Turina

    La procesion del Rocio

    Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. Conductor: Max Bragado-Darman.
    • Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana.
    • Naxos.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird Suite: Dance of the Princesses

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Pájaros Mágicos.
    • PLATOON.

  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    4 Indian Love Lyrics: Kashmiri Song

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Singer: Robert White.
    • Bird Songs at Eventide: English Songs of the Edwardian Era.
    • Hyperion.

  • James Oswald

    The Caledonian Pocket Companion - Up in the Morning Early

    Performer: Florence Bolton. Performer: Benjamin Perrot. Ensemble: La Rêveuse.
    • London Circa 1740: Handel’s Musicians.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • James Oswald

    The Caledonian Pocket Companion: Sleepy Maggy

    Performer: Florence Bolton. Performer: Benjamin Perrot. Ensemble: La Rêveuse.
    • London circa 1740: Handel's musicians.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 15.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Pérez Prado

    Qué Rico el Mambo

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Music Arranger: Joshua Davis. Ensemble: Havana Horns.
    • Alpha.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite no.1 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • Bizet: L'arlesienne, Carmen suites: Minkowski.
    • Naive.
    • 8.

  • Edward Elgar

    Froissart Overture, Op.19

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major Op.20 for strings - 4th mvmt (presto)

    Ensemble: Elmore Quartet. Ensemble: Vista String Quartet.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata & Fugue

    Performer: Vincent Dubois.
    • Eternal Notre Dame.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • Mari.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Chaconne des Scaramouches (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Orchestra: Concert Des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 8.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Tarantelle in A flat major, Op 43

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • London.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major TWV.53:D5 for trumpet, violin and orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Ute Hartwich. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Telemann: Violin Concertos. Overture. Suite. Fantasie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 26.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3