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Start the day with classical music

Mark Forrest 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

  • Alexander Glazunov

    3 Miniatures for Piano, Op. 42: Valse - Allegretto

    • Forgotten Melodies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • 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.

  • James Ross

    Landscape to Light

    Performer: James Ross. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • PHENOTYPIC RECORDS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 - Chorus

    Performer: Eva Saladin. Performer: Claudio Rado. Performer: Emmanuel Laporte. Orchestra: Gli Angeli Genève. Conductor: Stephan MacLeod. Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Singer: Aleksandra Lewandowska.
    • Bach: The Complete Chorale Cantatas / Cantatas 45-47.
    • APARTE.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico Botticelliano: La Primavera

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • Italian Perspectives.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Gustav Jenner

    Clarinet Sonata in G Major, Op. 5: I. Allegro moderato e grazioso

    • Jenner, R. Schumann & Weber: Works for Clarinet and Piano.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 No.2

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Jean Cras

    Quintette: I. Assez anime

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • French Music for Flute, Harp And String Trio.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 1.

  • Rachel Portman

    The Little Prince Orchestral Suite

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Cinéma.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 11.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.

  • Max Richter & Hugh Tieppo‐Brunt

    Of the undiscovered country (From The Original Motion Picture "Hamnet")

    • Of the undiscovered country (From The Original Motion Picture \"Hamnet\").
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Music Arranger: Eduard Schütt. Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov.
    • Strauss: Transcriptions: Scherbakov.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale Op.31

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 05.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op. 12

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra.
    • Dance With Me.
    • Alpha.
    • 12.

  • vision string quartet

    Samba

    • Spectrum.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1785.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Gareth Wood

    Mist of the Afan Forest (Brass Triumphant)

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • Triumphant Brass: Cory Band, Dr Robert Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 8.

  • Geoffrey Bush

    Yorick

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from the British Isles, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3