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Brighten your day 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

  • Ethel Smyth

    Suite for Strings, 1st movement

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • Claves Records.
    • 4.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Agnus Dei (Requiem, Op 48)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Faure: Requiem, Bach: Partita, Chorales & Ciaconna.
    • LSO Live.
    • 14.

  • Arnold Bax

    Four Orchestral Pieces, GP 152: III. From the Mountains of Home

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Bax: Four Orchestral Pieces, Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra & Orchestra, Elegy.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Prelude)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust.
    • J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas. Isabelle Faust.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Flute and Harp (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris - Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Hubert Parry

    Dear Lord and Father of mankind

    Performer: Daniel Cook. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Valse-scherzo in C Major, Op. 34, TH 58

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester.
    • Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.

  • George Fenton

    Shadowlands

    Performer: Simon Chamberlain. Music Arranger: Simon Chamberlain.
    • The Piano Framed.
    • George Fenton.
    • 17.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Phi.

  • Giuseppe Cambini

    String Quintet No. 47 in D Major: 3rd movement

    Ensemble: Amadeus Chamber Musicians.
    • Giuseppe Cambini: Chamber Music, Vol. 1.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 103.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes, B. 99

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Supraphon.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Six Short Pieces for piano (No 5 in A flat major)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.

  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Magnificent Seven (main theme)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Elmer Bernstein.
    • Elmer Bernstein by Elmer Bernstein.
    • Denon.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske, Op 88 No 2 (Phantasiestücke)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter' - Menuet

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.

  • Vincenzo Righini

    Ove son, qual'aure io spiro (Il natal d'Apollo)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Ensemble: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. Director: Jérémie Rhorer.
    • Arie di Bravura - Salieri, Righini, Mozart.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Opp. 37 & 58.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • George Fenton

    The Blue Planet (Original Television Soundtrack)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Conductor: George Fenton.
    • Silva Screen.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite Orientale, Op 48 - Mvts 1&2

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without words, Op 109

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Song.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1, P. 109

    Orchestra: Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Neschling.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Erato.
    • 22.

  • Nathaniel Dett

    Music in the Mine

    Singer: Ruairi Bowen. Choir: BBC National Chorus of Wales. Conductor: Adrian Partington.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto 'per la solennità di Lorenzo' in C, RV556 - mov. 3

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

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