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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

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Lux aeterna

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Piazzolla Stories.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei, Deus

    Performer: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Piano Trio in D Major: III. Allegro vivace

    Ensemble: Fidelio Trio.
    • Ernest Moeran: Chamber Music.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata no.35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret')

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Bach: Sinfonia: Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Oboe concerto in E flat major

    Performer: Christoph Hartmann. Orchestra: Ensemble Berlin.
    • Bella Napoli - Oboe Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Robert Johnson

    Carman's Whistle

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Nocturnal.
    • BIS.
    • 122.

  • Stephen Sondheim

    Broadway Baby (Follies)

    Performer: Dylan Perez. Singer: Nicky Spence.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation from "Thais"

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.

  • Charles Silver

    La Belle au bois dormant (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • Charles Silver: La Belle Au Bois Dormant.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 1, No. 8, Adagio - Pas d'Action

    Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 1, No. 8, Adagio – Pas d’Action (Arr. for O.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasia No 1 in B-Flat Major (1st mvt)

    • Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasia No 1 in B-Flat Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout.
    • Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • José White Lafitte

    La Bella Cubana (Arr. for Solo Winds and Orchestra by Jorge Aragón)

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.

  • Ernesto Lecuona

    Danzas Afro-Cubanas for piano; No.6 La Comparsa

    Performer: Marcos Madrigal.
    • Academy.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Two Violins in D Major RV 512

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Daniele Orlando. Orchestra: I Solisti Aquilani.
    • ARCANA.

  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Serenade

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Bertrand.
    • Amalie's Cosmos.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances (Nos 2-6)

    Music Arranger: Jonas Dominique. Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Martin Frost: Roots.
    • Sony.
    • 10-14.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Philippe Entremont. Performer: Gaby Casadesus.
    • Essential Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Sarka (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sing Gently

    Performer: Christopher Glynn. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for Violin Solo No 3: Gavotte

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Destination Rachmaninoff: Departure.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in D major, K 314

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.

  • John Dowland

    Time stands still in gazing on her face

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101 no.7

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros.
    • Capriccio – violin pieces.
    • Virgin.
    • 5.

  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White's Dance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Roald Dahl).
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 03.

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