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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 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

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Clear and gentle stream (7 Part Songs, Op.17)

    Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in G Minor, BWV 995: V. Gavotte I & II

    Performer: Franz Hal谩sz.
    • J.S. Bach: The Lute Suites.
    • BIS.
    • 105.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Symphonies 1-4. Berliner Philharmoniker - Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Anthony Holborne

    Muy Linda

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • BIS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax RV.630 for soprano (or tenor) and orchestra

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Joseph Crouch.
    • Vivaldi & Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: 成人快手 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Concert pour quatre parties de violes, H545 (Gigue angloise)

    Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Anne Sofie von Otter: Ombre de mon Amant.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 17.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mazurka

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Les filles de Cadix

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance No 1

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James Judd.
    • Elgar - Orchestral Minatures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • HYPERION.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Canaries I & II [Straloch Lute Book]

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert des Nations, Jord.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.

  • Carl Orff

    O Fortuna (Carmina burana)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Orff: Carmina Burana: LSO, Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude No 74 in C minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult: 脡tudes.
    • BIS.
    • 17.

  • Edward Gregson

    Cornet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Marshall. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Doyen.

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlesienne Suite no.2)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • Philips.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto Andaluz (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Los Romeros. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Little Suite in A minor Op.1 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Iona Brown.
    • The Sound of Scandinavia.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Tallis: Spem in alium & other choral works: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • The Kristjan J盲rvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiest眉ck, Op 73 No 1

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Steven Isserlis plays Schumann.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto after BWV 150, BWV 170 and BWV 49 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Conductor: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Trinity Baroque. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Voices Of Bach Albrecht Mayer.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Robert Johnson

    Where the bee sucks

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • Warner.

  • Richard Strauss

    Waltz sequence no.2 (Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • EMI.

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  • Wed 23 Jul 2025 06:30
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