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Kickstart 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

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cypresses, B152: No. 3: When thy sweet glances

    Ensemble: Cypress String Quartet.
    • Dvořák: Cypresses for String Quartet; String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavyanskaya": III. Adagio

    Conductor: José Serebrier. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV208 Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!: Ihr lieblichste Blicke

    Choir: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Ensemble: Bach‐Collegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling.
    • Hanssler.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict, H. 138: Overture

    Conductor: John Nelson. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon.
    • Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • William Lawes

    Harp Consort No. 9 in D Major: Pavin on a theme by Cormacke

    Ensemble: Ensemble Près de votre Oreille. Conductor: Robin Pharo.
    • William Lawes: Lighten mine eies.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And The Swallow

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 48 "Maria Theresia" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 11.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro Op.47

    Ensemble: LSO String Ensemble. Conductor: Roman Simović.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Robert Schumann

    Traumerei (from Scenes of Childhood Op.15 no. 7)

    Performer: Eric Lu.

  • Felix Woyrsch

    Symphony No. 6 in C major, Op. 77 "Sinfonia sacra": I. Sanktus. Mabig schnell

    Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Württemberg Philharmonic of Reutlingen.
    • CPO.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed: Spring 0 + Spring 1

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Elena Urioste. Ensemble: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo

    Conductor: Robin Ticciati. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 5.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Waltzes Op.64 (no.2 in C sharp minor)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: Piano works: Maria Joao Pires/Pavel Gomziakov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Doming Lam

    Retrograde

    Performer: Natalie Lin Douglas. Performer: Patrick Yim.
    • Lam: Retrograde.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlésienne - Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio Brillant in B Minor, Op. 22, MWV O8

    Performer: Helen Huang. Conductor: Kurt Masur. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Zeit für Klavierkonzerte.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Where now? (The Fair Maid of the Mill)

    Performer: Christopher Glynn. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • Schubert: The Fair Maid of the Mill.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Sleeping Beauty (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Leonard Slatkin conducts Tchaikovsky Ballets.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 26.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 201.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G Minor, Op 6 No 6, HWV 324 (4th & 5th mvts)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 604.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, 'Pathetique': III. Allegro molto vivace

    Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence & Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathetique’.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 7.

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