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Start your 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

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Serenade (No 2 of 5 Fantasy Pieces, Op 5)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Louis Spohr

    Potpourri

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin O’Neill.
    • Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude (from 'Suite Bergamasque')

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov.
    • Inferno.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • English Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor (1st mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: James Ehnes.
    • Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (Recorded 2020).
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for String Orchestra in E major (1st mvt, Moderato)

    Ensemble: I Tempi. Conductor: Gevor Gharabekyan.
    • GENUIN.

  • Paule Maurice

    Tableaux de Provence (Le Cabridan)

    Performer: Julia Nolan. Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.

  • Donald Grant

    Bha là eile ann

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Jukebox Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1601.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 18, 'The Hunt' (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Influences.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Unknown

    In a Glorious Garden Green (16th century)

    Choir: Opus Anglicanum.
    • The Garden.
    • Opus Anglicanum.
    • 029.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in C major (1st mvt, Moderato)

    Performer: Sung-Won Yang. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
    • Haydn.
    • Universal Music Ltd..
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • The Essential New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 117.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Trio No 1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • A Room Of Her Own.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Peter Katona

    The Tarrega Double Concerto (1st mvt, Gran Vals)

    Composer: Francisco Tárrega. Performer: Peter Katona. Performer: Zoltán Katona. Ensemble: Katona Twins. Orchestra: Chapelle Musicale de Tournai. Conductor: Philippe-Gérard.
    • Alhambra Inspirations.
    • Solo Musica.
    • 2.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Queen of love

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.

  • John Rutter

    Reflections (4th mvt, Finale alla burlesca)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Reflections.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (from 'The Snow Maiden')

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The London Philharmonic Orchestra Performs.
    • Intereuro.
    • 34.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Symphony in B Minor (1st mvt, Andante)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Anna Skryleva.
    • Kashperova: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 2 & Symphony in B Minor, Op. 4.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III. Rondo (Allegro)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.

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  • Sunday06:30
    BBC Radio 3