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Launch the day 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

  • Julie Cooper

    Contemplation Suite; I. Dawn

    Performer: Clio Gould. Performer: Julie Cooper.
    • Julie Cooper: Continuum.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie.
    • Linn Records.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen suite Op.22)

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto No 2, BWV1053 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Music Arranger: Frans Brüggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse

    Ensemble: Duo Erkutun Dariyerli.
    • Débuts enchantés.
    • Evidence Classics.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 62 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 15: La Reine.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Antoine Reicha

    Andante No 1 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Proclaim, fortunate Hamburg Wq.216

    Choir: Akademie Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Auf, schicke dich recht feierlich & Spiega Hammonia for.
    • CPO.
    • 120.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 204.

  • Johann Beer

    Ouverture for Strings and Basso Continuo in D Major (Ouverture and Bourree)

    Orchestra: New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • Pentatone.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major (2 Nocturnes Op.27)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Lunaris.
    • Universal Music Operations Limited.
    • 1.

  • Gabriel Pierné

    Le jardin de Gracieuse (Ramuntcho)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Pierne: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Cloud Capp'd Towers (Three Shakespeare Songs)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Poema autunnale

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Poème.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

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

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Recordings.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Lead, kindly light

    Singer: Katy Hill. Singer: Daniel Collins. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Lead, Kindly Light.
    • CORO.
    • 5.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto Grosso in E flat major Op.4`10 'Da Camard' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players.
    • Locatelli - Sonatas Op. 4.
    • Hyperion.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte VII, Op. 85: IV. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Blue Hour – Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 36 'Linz' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: IV. Presto.
    • Aparté.
    • 1.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musagète & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
    • BIS.

  • Stephen Sondheim

    Follies (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • Celebrate Broadway Vol. 4: Overtures.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 3.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (La vida breve)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Falla: La Vida Breve: Lopez-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony Orchstra.
    • Telarc.

  • Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen

    String Quartet No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Accademia della Magnifica Comunità.
    • Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartets Nos. 1-6.
    • Tactus.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Sep 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3