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Launch the 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 [email protected]

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Music Played

  • Erland Cooper

    Rousay

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
    • Hether Blether.
    • Phases.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major, Kk 135

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony no.2 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.

  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 63: III. Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Duo Tal & Groethuysen. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Beethoven's World - Eberl, Dussek: Concertos for 2 Pianos.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225: II. Coro "Wie sich ein Vat'r erbarmet"

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Singer: Dorothee Mields. Singer: Damien Guillon. Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Singer: Peter Kooij. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Motetten.
    • Phi.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Idomeneo (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mozart: Idomeneo, K. 366.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 101.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep River I

    Performer: Ashley Jackson.
    • Deep River.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 1 Op.1a - Sun Dance

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • EMI.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97, 'Rhenish' - 1st movement, Allegro

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3: Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Järvi.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Ballaké Sissoko

    Jeu sur la Symphonie Fantastique

    Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Patrick Messina. Performer: Vincent Ségal.
    • NoFORMAT.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu for String Orchestra (From Impromptu, Op. 5)

    Ensemble: Helsingin juniorijouset. Conductor: Csaba Szilvay. Conductor: Géza Szilvay.
    • Kaamos / Polar Night - Finnish Works for String Orchestra.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Gavotte (Masques et bergamasques)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major mvt 1, BWV 529

    Music Arranger: Antoine Torunczyk. Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rinaldo - Overture

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 'Archduke' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Astatine Trio.

  • Trad.

    Dashing away with the smoothing iron

    Music Arranger: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 58 (Finale)

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Warner.

  • 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.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    O Clap Your Hands

    Conductor: Jeremy Summerly. Choir: Oxford Camerata.
    • GIBBONS: Choral and Organ Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate.
    • Where is Home / Hae ke Kae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninoff: 13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major. Moderato

    Performer: Ruth Slenczynska.
    • My Life in Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: Serenades.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Trad.

    The Canadian set

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 2.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Orchestra: III. Rondo

    Performer: Juanjo Mena. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20 (Arr. M. Knight for Brass Septet): I. Al

    Composer: Matthew Knight. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E flat major H.16.52 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart: Sonatas: Rafal Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3