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Kickstart your day with the best 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

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Sarabande et rigaudon: Sarabande

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Philip Glass

    Morning Passages (The Hours)

    Performer: Michael Riesman. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Nick Ingman.
    • The Hours - Film Soundtrack.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 2.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hänsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Andrea Oliva. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva/Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Andrea Oliva. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva/Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Anon.

    John Come Kiss Me Now

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Jacobean Lute Music.
    • BIS.
    • 121.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Francesco Cilea

    Adriana Lecouvreur: Intermezzo

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 13.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Chau Paris

    Music Arranger: Claudio Constantini. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Claudio Constantini.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

  • Adolph von Henselt

    Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 16: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Paul Wee. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • von Henselt/Bronsart von Schellendorff - Piano Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    On the Alm (From the Bavarian Highlands)

    Performer: Max Hanft. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27 & Partsongs.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 105.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    • MCA Records.

  • Joaquín Turina

    Sinfonia Sevillana: Fiesta en San Juan de Aznalfarache

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria.
    • Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana; Evangelio; Ritmos; El Castillo de Almodovar.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Haste on, My joys!

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Where All Roses Go.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 19.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No 10 "Gran partita": Finale

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Feilding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest. Performer: David Stark.
    • Mark Simpson: Geysir - Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran par.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 207.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity (The Planets Recomposed)

    Performer: Delia Stevens. Performer: Will Pound.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, Op 9 No 1

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Albinoni: 12 concertos, op.9: Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 1-3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 'New World' Op. 95 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics SIGCD515.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance No 1, Op 22

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • A Child's Dream.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Soirées musicales: La danza

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Conductor: Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille.
    • The Voice of the Trumpet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Arnold Bax

    The Happy Forest

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made In Britain.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Imperial march

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: The Crown of India, Imperial March, Empire March & Coronation March.
    • Chandos.
    • 20.

  • Florence Price

    5 Folksongs in Counterpoint : Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 15.

  • Franz Liszt

    6 Hungarian rhapsodies S.359 (no.2)

    Performer: József Lendvay Sr. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Liszt: 6 Hungarian Rhapsodies: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

  • Augusta Holmès

    Night and Love (interlude from the symphonic ode Ludus pro Patria)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz (Faust)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Coppélia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.

  • Nicola Matteis Sr.

    Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda ò pur ciaccona

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations: 5. One Sunday in the South

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.
    • African American Voices II.
    • Linn Records.
    • 05.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3