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Boost your morning 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

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37a: V. May. White Nights. Andantino

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang 3 [Ave Maria] D.839

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Anaïs Gaudemard. Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Fete Galante - Overture

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Fete Galante.
    • Retrospect Opera.
    • 01.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Bach - Pour La Luth Ò Cembal.
    • Delphian.

  • Georges Bizet

    Seguidilla (Carmen, Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Pablo González.
    • Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso

    Performer: Johannes Obermeier.
    • Beyond Words.
    • Genuin.
    • 119.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Legend of the Kalendar Prince

    Performer: Sergey Galaktionov. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino.
    • Fone Records.

  • [traditional]

    The Dean Brig o' Edinburgh; Banks Hornpipe

    Composer: James Scott Skinner. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Phil Cunningham.
    • DECCA .

  • Josquin des Prez

    El grillo

    Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
    • The Art of the Netherlands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell: Overture

    Conductor: Michele Mariotti. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 901.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin: Menuet

    Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • Ravel Paris 2025.
    • naive, a label of Believe Group.
    • 05.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major, Op. 5: II. Largo

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Cancan (Orpheus in the Underworld)

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

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang at the Movies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Concerto No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stephan Siegenthaler. Orchestra: Cappella Istropolitana. Conductor: Kaspar Zehnder.
    • Sheva Collection.

  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Mattinata

    Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. Orchestra: Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini. Conductor: Carlo Tenan.
    • Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Havergal Brian

    The Tinker's Wedding - comedy overture

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

  • Jessie Montgomery

    Strum

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Orchestra: Insula Camerata.
    • "Beethoven Extended": Symphony No. 5.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Vasily Andreyev

    The Butterfly

    Orchestra: Andreyev Imperial Russian Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Hochlov.
    • Balalaika!.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Poetic Tone Pictures, Op 85 (No 1 Twilight Way)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Dvorák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op.85.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Carl Orff

    In trutina (Carmina burana)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • EMI.

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