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Breakfast with the best 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

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies: Malsbury, LMP, Shelley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in F major, BWV233 - Gloria

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Claude Debussy

    The girl with the flaxen hair (Preludes, Book 1 No 8) arr. for guitar

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Music Arranger: Julian Bream.
    • Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin (Arr. Bream for Guitar).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Max Reger

    A Romantic Suite Op.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Christian Thielemann - Staatskapelle Dresden: Ferruccio Busoni / Hans Pfitzner /.
    • Profil Medien.
    • 2.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 492

    Performer: Virgile Barthe. Music Arranger: Gérard Abiton.
    • Virgile Barthe Guitar Recital.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 - IV. Allegro ma non troppo

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • My American Story: North.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.20`3 in G minor (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • The 'Sun' Quartets Op. 20.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Allegretto from Sonata In G Major Wq.133

    Performer: Elizaveta Ivanova. Performer: Sanja Bizjak.

  • John Rutter

    Suite Lyrique (2nd mvt, Ostinato)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K.136 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Barnaby Smith. Ensemble: Les Inventions.
    • A Purcell Collection.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • Signum.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.12 in F major, Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.

  • Johann Stamitz

    Symphony in G major 'Mannheim'

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto; Three Symphonies.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Music Arranger: Roger Turner. Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • The Lark Ascending.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki, Op. 105; IV ballet

    Music Arranger: Andrew Cornall. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Moscow Cheryomushki & Symphony No. 1.
    • Philharmonia Records Ltd.
    • 104.

  • Percy Grainger

    Walking Tune

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Piano Music - Country Gardens, Shepherd's Hey; Cake-Walk Smasher etc..
    • Hyperion.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Scherzo; Finale)

    Orchestrator: Irwin Kostal. Orchestrator: Sid Ramin. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Bernstein Conducts Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4-10.

  • Ayanna Witter-Johnson

    Windrush Reflections - 1st movement

    Ensemble: BBC SSO Ensemble. Conductor: Enyi Okpara.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • L'Album des Six: The complete works of The Six for flute and piano.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Grant Still

    Singing River (Wood Notes)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Jun 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3