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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

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 23.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 4 in G Major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 4.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op.57

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata No 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir')

    Performer: Ottavio Dantone. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Bach: Sinfonia: Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • British Flute Concertos - Beynon/BBC NOW/Tovey.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929: II. Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • Trio Gaspard Live in Berlin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 11.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus (Prologue: Overture)

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 7.

  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)

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

  • Robert Schumann

    5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: I. Vanitas vanitatum. Mit Humor

    Performer: Christoph Croisé. Performer: Ana Bakradze.
    • Folklore.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 21.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No. 7 in F Major, Op. 77 "Pastora'nayal": I. Allegro moderato

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Glazunov: The Symphonies.
    • Orfeo.
    • 24.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, Op 23 (Nos 3 & 4)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6-8.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos.
    • LYRITA.
    • 10.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Histoire du tango (Bordel 1900)

    Music Arranger: ESCUALO5. Ensemble: ESCUALO5.
    • Piazzolla: Tango Works.
    • BIS.
    • 109.

  • Franz Krommer

    Concertino for Flute, Oboe & Violin in F Major (1st movement)

    Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Marek Štilec.
    • Krommer: Symphonies Nos. 1-2 & Concertino for Flute, Oboe & Violin.
    • Naxos.
    • 109.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Act 3 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Wagner, Parsifal, an orchestral quest: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Eric Coates

    The Jester at the Wedding: IV. Valse, "The Dance of the Orange Blossoms"

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic.
    • Coates: Orchestra Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Amy Beach

    Children's Carnival Op.25

    Performer: Şahan Arzruni.
    • NEW WORLD.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Daniele Callegari.
    • Rolando Villazon: Tenor.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.

  • Johann Beer

    Ouverture for Strings and Basso Continuo in D Major: I. Ouverture

    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Roger Quilter

    Summer Sunset

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Lenehan. Music Arranger: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • A Tale of Two Cellos.
    • Naxos.
    • 20.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Callirhoé (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 1.

  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' prelude and fugue for orchestra - concert version

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Walton: Sir William Walton's film music Vol.2: Academy of St. Martin in the Fiel.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-2.

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral march of a marionnette

    Performer: Tristan Pfaff.
    • Piano Encores.
    • Aparté.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Gordon Nikolic. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Sextet in E flat major Op.71 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ottetto Italiano.
    • Beethoven: Complete works for Winds and Brass Vol. 1.
    • Arts Productions Ltd.
    • 6.

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