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Brighten your day with classical music

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

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Vocalise for flute, clarinet and harp

    Ensemble: Korros Ensemble.
    • Convivium.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe)

    Choir: Ensemble vocal Aedes. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 301.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp"

    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 2 in F Minor "The Bees"

    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 3 in F Major "The Horseman"

    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata no.140)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 52: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11/5, G. 275: III. Minuetto and Trio

    Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Ross Pople.
    • Favourite Classics for Small Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Pierné

    Canzonetta Op.19

    Music Arranger: Jelle Tassyns. Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Belle époque.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Thème varié in A major, Op 89

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104 mov.3 Poco vivace

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Hipocondrie a 7 in A major

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Michel Legrand

    Paris Violon

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E minor, Op 119 No 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Grand duo concertant Op.48 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Blue Hour – Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and Silver Waltz

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Here Come the Classics, Vol. 12: The Glory of Vienna.
    • RPO.
    • 11.

  • Simon Fraser

    The Beauty of the North; Miss Dumbreck

    Composer: Anonymous. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.71.
    • Linn.
    • 05.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: III. Rondeau. Allegro

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water (Arr. for two Pianos by Clémentin Bonjour)

    • 55.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Robert Woolley. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op.6.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 021.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout)

    Music Arranger: Timothy Ridout.
    • Alto appassionato.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 8.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Story of My Heart (2 Poems of Richard Jefferies)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": I. Allegro mà non molto

    • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": II. Adagio - Presto

    • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": III. Presto

    • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm

    Music Arranger: The Julian Bliss Septet. Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • I Got Rhythm.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Claude Debussy

    Printemps (I. Tres modere)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.64`5 'The Lark'

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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