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Start 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

  • Franz Schubert

    Ständchen, D. 957, No. 4

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Lukas Sternath.
    • Ständchen, D. 957, No. 4 (Transcr. for Piano by Franz Liszt, S. 560, No. 7).
    • Masterworks.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra: 3. Allegro gentile

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Aranjuez.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto BWV. 971; 1st mvt

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • HYPERION.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot, Op 16

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets Russes.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 012.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suite for 4 in D Major, TWV 43:D3: 1st movement

    Ensemble: London Händel Players.
    • Telemann: Paris Quartets, Vol. 2.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Art Nouveau: French Chamber Music Around 1900.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto No. 6 in D Major, G. 479: I. Allegro

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones populares espanolas: no.4 Jota (arr M. Llobet for guitar & cello)

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Performer: Edgar Moreau.
    • Leyendas - Thibaut Garcia.
    • Erato.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no. 5 in D major: 3rd mvt; Romanza (Lento)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 / Symphony No.6.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel

    Trumpet Concerto in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Andrew Wainwright

    Enduring Faith

    Performer: Five Lakes Silver Band. Conductor: Christopher Ward.
    • Legacy.
    • World of Brass.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major: 3rd movement

    Ensemble: Scharoun Ensemble.
    • Schubert: Octet D 803.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 74 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Weber: Concertante Works for Clarinet and Horn: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Mikado; Act 1: 10. Three little maids from school are we

    Lyricist: William Gilbert. Singer: Valerie Masterson. Singer: Pauline Wales. Singer: Peggy Ann Jones. Choir: D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Royston Nash.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Favourites.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D, K.485

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1 (4th movement)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ysaÿe.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1-3.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 8.

  • Helena Munktell

    Summer Night (finale of Dalecarlian Suite)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.

  • Johann Schelle

    Komm, Jesu, komm

    Choir: Rheinische Kantorei. Conductor: Edzard Burchards.
    • Love & Devotion: German Baroque Motets from Leipzig.
    • CPO.
    • 103.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Six Piano Pieces Op. 118.
    • PENTATONE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Jephtha: Act 3; Waft her, angels [aria]

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Handel Arias - Padmore / The English Concert / Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 017.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak/Myslivecek: Blaserserenaden: Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

Broadcast

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