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Boost your morning with classical music

Linton Stephens 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

  • Maurice Ravel

    Lever du jour (Daphnis and Chloé)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Ravel: Five O'Clock Foxtrot, Boléro, Pavane for a Dead Princess, La valse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 107.

  • Gustav Holst

    Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda - Group 3 (Hymn to the Dawn)

    Ensemble: Etherea Vocal Ensemble. Performer: Grace Cloutier. Conductor: Derek Greten-Harrison.
    • Hymn to the Dawn.
    • Delos.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, KV 297b (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in F Major, BWV 1057 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Matthew Halls. Ensemble: Retrospect Ensemble.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance No 2

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

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Music Arranger: Antoine Forqueray.
    • Spanish Serenade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Waldesruhe (Silent woods)

    Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Brahms, Viotti & Dvořák: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.85 in B flat major H.1.85 'La Reine' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 5.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    From the Hills

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 9.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D Major Kk.119

    Performer: Daria van den Bercken.
    • Domenico Scarlatti and Daria van den Bercken.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Nicola Benedetti plays Vaughan Williams & Tavener.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Prologue: The Carousel Waltz (from 'Carousel')

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Bassoon Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jaakko Luoma. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Mozart, Winter, Hummel & Rossini: Bassoon Concertos.
    • Ondine.
    • 10.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Come, Let Us Worship (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

    Choir: VOCES8. Choir: Ringmasters.
    • Come Let Us Gather.
    • Decca.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op.37 no.1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    String Quartet No 4 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Stanford: String Quartets.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto in E flat Major Op.74 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • SONY.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Benedictus (Requiem compl. Süssmayr)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Sir Willard White. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mozart: Requiem K626/Kyrie K341: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in F major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Constanze Quartet.
    • Emilie Mayer: String Quartets Vol. 2.
    • CPO.

  • Herbert Howells

    Even such is time

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Antonio Salieri

    L'Angiolina (Overture)

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Dittrich.
    • Salieri: Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Sep 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3