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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Prelude (From "49th Parallel")

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Vaughan Williams: Film Music Classics.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, D 803: V. Menuetto. Allegretto

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

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir haben einen Gott from Kothener Trauermusik, BWV 1143/244a

    Ensemble: Solomon's Knot.
    • RSK Entertainment Limited.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt: Minuet)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • John Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Étude romantique in G-Flat Major, Op 132

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Rarities of Piano Music at "Schloss vor Husum" from the 2024 Festival (Live).
    • Danacord Records.
    • 10.

  • Trad.

    Danny Boy

    Choir: The King’s Singers.
    • Gold.
    • Signum Records.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik, (mvt 4)

    • Mozart: String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Georg Melchior Hoffmann

    Horn Concerto in E-flat major

    Performer: Clemens Röger. Performer: Amanda Tauriņa. Performer: Susanne Wettemann. Ensemble: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 114.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Impromptu no.2 in B minor

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete): COE, Berglund.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.

  • Lucy Walker

    O nata lux

    Conductor: Andrew Earis. Ensemble: St Martin’s Voices.
    • Lucy Walker: Choral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F major RV.293 'Autumn'

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • George Frederick Bristow

    Symphony No. 2, 'Jullien' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • New World.

  • Trad.

    Tie the Bonnet

    Ensemble: Lúnasa.
    • The Kinnitty Sessions.
    • Lúnasa Records.
    • 11.

  • Camille Saint-Saëns

    Samson et Dalila Op.47 (Bacchanale)

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du Duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

  • Camille Saint-Saëns

    Bacchanale (Samson and Delilah)

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.49 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Nicola Antonio Porpora

    Polifemo: Overture

    Conductor: Stefan Plewniak. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal.
    • Porpora: Polifemo.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 1.

  • Julius Röntgen

    Wind Serenade no.1 Op.14 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Julius Rontgen - Wind Serenades.
    • CPO.
    • 8.

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No 2 in D Major, (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 14 No.2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.

  • Eric Coates

    The Dambusters March

    Performer: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Duncan Stubbs.
    • Royal Air Force 100th Anniversary.
    • Chandos.
    • 30.

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