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Al Ryan 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

  • Marie Jaëll

    Cello Concerto in F Major: III. Andantino sostenuto

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Anna Rakitina.
    • Cello Concerto in F Major/III. Andantino sostenuto.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Elizabethan Songs: II. O Mistress Mine

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Choir: Holst Singers. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Elizabethan Songs: III. The Willow Song

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Choir: Holst Singers. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare.
    • Hyperion.

  • Niel Gow

    Coilsfield House - Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning

    Composer: Nathaniel Gow. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses

    Orchestra: Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benoît Fromanger.
    • Chant de Linos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • ONYX.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Ruud.
    • BIS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    3 Songs, Op. 23: No. 1, Les Berceaux

    Music Arranger: Timothy Ridout.
    • Alto appassionato.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • Johann Beer

    Ouverture for Strings and Basso Continuo in D Major: mvt IV

    Ensemble: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 417: II. Andante

    Performer: Pip Eastop. Ensemble: The Hanover Band. Director: Anthony Halstead.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4; Horn Quintet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 417: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Pip Eastop. Ensemble: The Hanover Band. Director: Anthony Halstead.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4; Horn Quintet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Octet in E-Flat Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists.
    • Beethoven: Music for Winds.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen suite Op.22)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: Symfony: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón. Orchestra: Millenium Orchestra.
    • Handel: Solomon.
    • Ricercar.
    • 44.

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Bacchanale (from 'Laurin')

    Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Ian Hobson.
    • Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestra Music, Vol. 4.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 206.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • William Herschel

    Symphony No. 14 in D Major: I. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Director: Matthias Bamert.
    • Herschel: Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • CPO.
    • 201.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Menahem Pressler. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Erato.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Alpha.

  • George Gershwin

    3 Preludes: 1 and 2

    Performer: Nikolay Medvedev.
    • SOMM Recordings.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan, Op 20

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Strauss, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Motets (Op.38), no.3; Beati quorum via

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven: The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 4.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No.3 in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Now.
    • BIS.
    • 103.

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