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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

  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 88: II. Allegro moder

    Performer: Ecesu Sertesen. Performer: Kyoungmin Park. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Bruch: Double Concertos, Adagio appassionato & Loreley Overture.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 8.

  • William Byrd

    Cunctis diebus

    Conductor: Mark Williams. Choir: Choir of Jesus College Cambridge.
    • Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Imogen Holst

    On Westhall Hill

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe, violin & strings in C minor BWV.1060 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D, K.334 - Orchestral Version - 6. Rondo (Allegro)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Karajan - Mozart.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 72.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 1 - second mov, Larghetto

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Farruca (The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 2)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.
    • Milos - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Anna Clyne

    Dance for cello and orchestra: I. when you're broken open

    Performer: Maja Bogdanović. Conductor: Xandi van Dijk. Orchestra: Phion Symphony Orchestra.
    • Perfectly Free.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 5.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.

  • Gordon Langford

    The Worth Valley Railway (3 Haworth Impressions)

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • CHANDOS.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Inspiration Waltzes

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 18.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 12 in E major H.1.12: 3rd movement; Finale (Presto)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'/Prometheus/Egmont.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 6 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 601.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: II. Lento - Allegro molto

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • Favourite Cello Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq.183 no.1

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • C P E Bach – Magnificat.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12-14.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: I. Maestoso

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2; Scherzi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Classical Tranquillity.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Primavera Porteña (4 Estaciones Porteñas)

    Music Arranger: Peter von Wienhardt. Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester.
    • Four Seasons.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 101.

  • Jules Massenet

    Les Érinnyes (1876 Version): IVa. Divertissement. Allegro

    Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Massenet: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

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