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Start the day on the right note 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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes for orchestra, No 1 "Nuages"

    Orchestra: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Barber

    String Quartet No 1 (2nd mvt. Adagio)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • American Tapestry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1027 (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Atsushi Sakaï. Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba.
    • Aparté.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance No 2

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 31 "Paris" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 "Paris", 34 & 35 "Haffner".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Mazurka de Salon Op.30

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 006.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandolin - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Great Hills (Perpetuum Mobil: Belloc's Mill)

    Performer: Madeleine Easton. Performer: Kathryn Thomas. Performer: Joanna Shaw. Orchestra: Orchestra Nova. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Dutton.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude No 12, Op 32

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.

  • Scott Joplin

    Treemonisha - Overture

    Conductor: Rick Benjamin. Ensemble: The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
    • Scott Joplin: Treemonisha.
    • New World Records.
    • 1.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No.5 in F minor, Op.42`1)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • BNL.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Moscow Cheryomushki & Symphony No. 1.
    • Philharmonia Records Ltd.
    • 106.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 1-3.

  • Marc‐André Hamelin

    Étude No 6 in D minor, 'Esercizio'

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Hamelin: Etudes, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, Cathy's Variations, Marc-Andre Hame.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer (Rondeau)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • John Eliot Gardiner - The Blossoming Conductor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata in A Major, D.574 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano.
    • Hyperion.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances

    Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quintet in E major Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Joachim Griesheimer. Ensemble: Mannheim String Quartet.
    • CPO.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 14 "Moonlight"

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Menuetto

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, Overture in E, Scene de Ballet and other works.
    • Naxos.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Menuet des follets (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Live).
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 7.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

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    BBC Radio 3