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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in D major, Op. 23 no.4

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No 9 "La ritirata di Madrid" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini : String & Guitar Quintets, Minuet in A.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 210.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Nocturne No 1

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.
    • audite Musikproduktion.

  • Léo Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 1: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Chorus)

    Choir: Windsbacher Knabenchor. Conductor: Karl-Friedrich Beringer.
    • Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Nyokabi Kariũki

    It Only Ever Rains in November

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Love at Last.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 10.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Barber: Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio for Strings.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G Major, S. 28: III. Rondo. Allegro (Cadenza: A. Av.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Christopher Gunning

    Lighthouse Hill

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning.
    • Chandos.
    • 112.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite No 1 (Air)

    Ensemble: L'Arte dell'Arco. Conductor: Giovanni Guglielmo.
    • Handel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks.
    • CPO.
    • 6.

  • Olivia Chaney

    To the Lighthouse

    • Olivia Chaney.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Robert Treviño. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live).
    • Ondine.
    • 3.

  • Leonora d'Este

    Haec Dies

    Choir: Lyyra.

  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

    Symphony No 3 "Westmorland" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Andrew Penny. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
    • Gibbs: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 7.

  • Jan Johansson

    Pippi Langstrumpf (Pippi Longstocking)

    Performer: Muriel Zeiter.
    • Just Wonderful.
    • Genuin.
    • 114.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marko Letonja.
    • Baritenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Olivier Demers

    Bienvenue

    Ensemble: Le Vent du Nord.
    • La Compagnie Du Nord.

  • Nathaniel Dett

    Juba (Dance)

    Performer: Luke Welch.
    • Luke Welch.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • O Solitude: Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata No 21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Natalie Zhu.
    • Mozart: Classical BBQ.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 360.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Cygnets (Swan Lake, Op 20)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Anna Caroline Oury

    Devonshire Polka

    Performer: Dmitry Mayboroda.
    • She Composed - 53 Piano Pieces by Women Composers.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 37.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Tableaux.
    • ALPHA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Pumeza Matshikiza. Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Arias.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Ren Guang

    Coloured Clouds Chasing The Moon

    Music Arranger: Jianzhong Wang. Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Dragon Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

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    BBC Radio 3