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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 [email protected]

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Music Played

  • Amy Beach

    Hermit Thrush, Op. 92: No. 1, The Hermit Thrush at Eve

    • Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2 - American Nocturnes.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 2.

  • Sir George Dyson

    George Dyson [1883-1964]

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Dyson: Nebuchadnezzar.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Performer: Matthew Halls. Performer: Christopher Hughes. Ensemble: Capricorn. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Agnus Dei: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.4 in D major BWV.1069 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • J.S. Bach: The Overtures (Original Versions).
    • CPO.
    • 401.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22 (2nd mvmt, Allegro scherzando)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 27).
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • WARNER.

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Chaconne in G major

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Performer: Emmanuele Forni. Performer: Michael Metzler. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
    • ERATO.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Waltz arr Dohnanyi

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Music Arranger: Erno Dohnanyi.
    • Dohnanyi: Piano Music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Mazeppa: Gopak

    • Reference Recordings.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.

  • Samuel Barber

    R3 American Roadtrip - Dallas - To Be Sung on the Water

    Choir: Orpheus Chamber Singers. Director: J.D. Burnett.

  • Georges Bizet

    Seguidilla (Carmen)

    Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • LAGQ Latin.
    • Telarc.
    • 13.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Duke Ellington

    It Don't Mean a Thing

    Composer: Irving Mills. Performer: Louis Armstrong. Ensemble: Duke Ellington.
    • Essential.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 7 in D Minor (3rd mvt. Scherzo. Vivace)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Henry Mancini

    The Pink Panther Theme

    Orchestra: Mancini Pops Orchestra.
    • RCA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in F major HWV.348 (Air)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Jarre

    Lara's Theme (Doctor Zhivago)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Hollywood's Greatest Hits.
    • Telarc.
    • 6.

  • Mel Bonis

    Salomé Op.100

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.

  • David Raksin

    A Song After Sundown

    Performer: Howard McGill. Music Arranger: David Raksin. Music Arranger: Scott Dunn. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Scott Dunn.
    • PLATOON.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Ove.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 9.

  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea - The Shipwreck

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic.
    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Ove.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2, 'The Joke' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Hary Janos Suite (Version for Orchestra): V. Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Kodály: Háry János Suite, Summer Evening & Symphony in C Major.
    • Naxos.
    • 105.

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