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Wake up your senses 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

  • Zdenek Fibich

    Poem (At Twilight)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Paul Mealor

    Lady, when I behold the roses

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Paul Mealor: A Tender Light: Tenebrae/RPO/Short.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Andreas Romberg

    Violin Concerto no.12 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Capriccio Baroque Orchestra.
    • Alpha.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Variations 6-9)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 2025).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Ruud.
    • BIS.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 101 in C sharp major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 123.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Introduction and rondo capriccioso

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Mihhail Gerts.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices — Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 35.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent noon

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Helen Charlston.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig Minkus

    La Bayadère (Act 3: No 44 - Allegro)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Minkus-Lanchbery: La Bayadère.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 13 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Eivind Groven

    Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 Towards the Mountains - II. Allegro

    Orchestra: Kristiansand Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Peter Szilvay.
    • Naxos.

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral march of a marionette

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Jill All Alone in G Major

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum from the 2022 Festival (Live).
    • Danacord Records.
    • 21.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Manfred Symphony, Op 58 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, The Voyevoda: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orches.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Antonello Manacorda. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2 (opening)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.

  • Philip Glass

    Suite from "The Hours" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Simone Dinnerstein. Music Arranger: Michael Riesman. Ensemble: Baroklyn.
    • naïve, a label of Believe Group.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite: Alla marcia

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Luci serene, e chiare

    Choir: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: Paul Agnew.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri terzo & quarto.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 201.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in G flat major, Op 70 No 1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Erato.

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