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Wake up 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

  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 31 'Horn Signal' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-round - galliard (courante) vers. for lute

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 BWV 1052 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang III, D 839 (Ave Maria)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Pedro H. da Silva

    When Daffodils Begin to Peer

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Bruce O’Neil.
    • Echoes of Nature (Live from Shakespeare's Church).
    • Imaginary Animals.
    • 7.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    The Lark [after Glinka's song]

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto - W.A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.

  • Philippe Gaubert

    Tarentelle

    Performer: John Ferrillo. Performer: Sally Pinkas. Performer: Fenwick Smith.
    • Gaubert: Works for Flute, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction et Allegro

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia/Karelia Suite... : Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Sakari.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Branford Marsalis

    Lazy Mama

    • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Music from the Netflix Film).
    • Masterworks.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest HWV.258

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard sonata in D, Kk.492

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 2 "Lobgesang" - Sinfonia (part of)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus: Ouverture

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2022 / New Year's Concert 2022 / Concert du Nouvel An 2022.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 07.

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Singer: Ruth Dean. Singer: Sally Dunkley. Singer: Christopher Royall. Director: Harry Christophers. Singer: Christopher Purves.
    • Allegri: Miserere; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 3.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    The Farmer's Boy

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Bell.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No.1: Entr'acte to Act 3

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Pablo González.
    • NAXOS.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons Op 2 No 11

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.
    • Schumann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Messa di Gloria (Gloria & Laudamus)

    Choir: Orfeó Català. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.
    • Puccini: Messa di gloria & Orchestral Works.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C Major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • CPO.
    • 203.

Broadcast

  • Thu 26 Feb 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3