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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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.

Including another chance to hear Segun Akinola's brand new work, commissioned by Radio 3 and inspired by the V&A East Museum's exhibition The Music is Black. 'On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles' pays tribute to the wide range of musical genres represented in the exhibition.

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Evening Breeze

    Performer: Hannah Watson Emmrich.
    • Notes from the Undergrowth: an ecosystem of piano miniatures.
    • Deux-Elles Limited.
    • 17.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Horn Concerto in D major, H VIId 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jasper de Waal. Performer: Henk Rubingh. Orchestra: Concertgebouw Kamerorkest.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D Major: III. Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • Claves Records.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir eilen mit schwachen (Cantata No 78)

    Singer: Marion Eckstein. Singer: Hannah Morrison. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • Bach Cantatas.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 16.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Chineke! Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 No. 2 III. Scherzo

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 (No 3, Scottish Waltz)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Arnold: Homage to the Queen etc, PO / Irving.
    • EMI.
    • 41.

  • Ignatius Sancho

    The Complaint

    Ensemble: The Windsor Box and Fir Company.
    • Music for Love and Marriage.
    • ISIS.
    • 015.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Music Arranger: Roger Turner. Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • The Lark Ascending.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Jeronimo de Aliseda

    Beatus Franciscus

    Choir: The Rose Ensemble. Director: Jordan Sramek.
    • Rose Records.

  • Johannes Brahms

    F-A-E Sonata: III. Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2 (Transcr. S. Smith for Horn & Piano

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • William Lawes

    Consort Suite à 6 No 3 in F major, 'Sunrise' (Air)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, I. Allegro

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Schubert: The Symphonies.
    • Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 17.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cypresses B.152 - 1. Moderato

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Old World - New World.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben' (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Arcangelo. Performer: Tom Foster. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Trio No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 34: II. Tema con variazioni. Andante semplice

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • CPO.

  • Segun Akinola

    On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Luis Castillo-Briceño.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Bassoon Concerto in C major, mvts 2 and 3

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Conductor: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Moonlight Variations.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Guerre et Paix.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 22.

  • Gerald Finzi

    It was a lover and his lass (Let us garlands bring, Op 18)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • English Orchestral Songs: Maltman/BBC SSO/Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op 96

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15.
    • LSO LIVE.

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