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Ease into 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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: II. Adagio

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Transfigured Night.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Valentina Peleggi.

  • William Walton

    Henry V: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • This is the Day.
    • Collegium Records.
    • 15.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in E major, Op.19 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus 7)

    Ensemble: Les inAttendus.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Claude Debussy

    Préludes - Book 1: VIII. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin

    Performer: Anna Tsybuleva.
    • The Complete Debussy Préludes for solo piano.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 108.

  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    A Winter's Tale Op.18

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Stig Westerberg.
    • Swedish Society.

  • Michael Tippett

    Steal away (5 Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • a la Gloire de Dieu: The Sixteen.
    • Coro.
    • 6.

  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Violin Concerto no.4 in D major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.
    • CEDILLE.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Chopin: Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 5 in E minor Op.64: 2nd mvt

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Jurowski Conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • LPO.
    • 002.

  • Francesco Manfredini

    Sinfonia da chiesa in D major, Op 2 No 12, 'Sinfonia pastorale'

    Performer: Thorsten Rosenbusch. Performer: Christian Trompler. Performer: Karl-Heinz Schröter. Performer: Harald Winkler. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Max Richter

    The Four Seasons Recomposed: Summer III

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Orchestra: Covent Garden Sinfonia. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter.
    • Rubicon Classics.
    • 16.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida, Act 2: Triumphal March and Ballet Music

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verdi: Aida.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 21.

  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Linn.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Anna Lapwood

    Arise, Shine

    Performer: Sophia Membery. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Sullivan: The Gondoliers - Overture

    Lyricist: William Gilbert. Conductor: James Christiansen. Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Ultimate Gilbert & Sullivan Anthology.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 1.

  • Grigoras Dinicu

    Hora Staccato

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Emilia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky. Performer: Martin Gjakonovski. Performer: Mihaela Ursuleasa.
    • Rapsodia.
    • Naive.
    • 18.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Partenope: Ouverture

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Luca Quintavalle.
    • Mirrors.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 06.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82: II. Romance. Andante

    Performer: Revital Chachamov. Performer: Maxim Vengerov.
    • Brahms : Violin Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 & Elgar : Violin Sonata in E minor.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: IV. Adagio - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

    Conductor: Robin Ticciati. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Prelude and fugue No 21 in B flat major, BWV 890)

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.

  • Tenebrae & Nigel Short

    Vinea Mea Electa

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3