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Kick-start 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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina (Andante non troppo - Allegro moderato)

    Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Morton.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 - & Shostakovich: String Quartet, Op..
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K.450 - 2. (Andante)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Conductor: Sándor Végh. Ensemble: Camerata Salzburg.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 16.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 (Ascension Oratorio) - 1. Chor: "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen"

    Lyricist: Trad.. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Choir: Choir of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Bach: Matthäus-Passion; Johannes-Passion.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 118.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75, 3. Clair de lune.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Serenade Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Camerata Bern. Director: Antje Weithaas.
    • Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor; Serenade for Strings.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 6.

  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartet (1st mvt: The Sentimental One)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol 3.
    • Azica.
    • 3.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition), Act IV: Symphony - Prelude

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692.
    • Signum Records.
    • 31.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960, III. Scherzo.

    Performer: Christian Blackshaw.
    • Pentatone.

  • Max Richter & Hugh Brunt

    Of the undiscovered country (From The Original Motion Picture "Hamnet")

    • Of the undiscovered country (From The Original Motion Picture \"Hamnet\").
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Fugue in C major

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 67 in F Major, Hob. I:67: IV. Allegro di molto - Adagio e cantabile

    Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • Haydn: Symphonies / Sinfonien Nos. 66, 67, 68.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 8.

  • Amy Beach

    Four Sketches for piano, Op 15 (Fireflies)

    Performer: Alan Feinberg.
    • The American Virtuoso.
    • ARGO.
    • 6.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco, Act III - Va pensiero

    Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
    • A Concert for Ukraine.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Enrique Granados

    Danzas espanolas, Op. 37: V. Andaluza

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Craig Ogden in Concert.
    • Chandos Records Limited,Chandos Records Limited.
    • 13.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet Op.64)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • William Henry Harris

    Bring us, O Lord God

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Émile Waldteufel

    The Skaters - waltz

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Les nuits de Paris.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 10.

  • John Dowland

    Come away, come sweet love

    Ensemble: Dowland's Foundry.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ständchen (Schwanengesang, D.957)

    Singer: Julian Prégardien. Performer: Xavier Díaz-Latorre. Performer: Marc Hantaï. Performer: Philippe Pierlot.
    • Schubertiade.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 28.

  • Leopold Mozart

    Sinfonia Pastorella (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Camerata Bern. Conductor: Józef Brejza.
    • In Praise of the Alphorn.
    • Claves Records.
    • 17.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Violin Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor Op.14 : III Rondo - Allegro giocoso

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Charlie Siem Plays Bruch, Wieniawski & Bull.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.

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