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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

Al Ryan presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With 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

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    Barocco Suite No 5: Siciliana

    Conductor: Thord Svedlund. Orchestra: Örebro Kammarorkester.
    • Kurt Atterberg: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra - Barocco - Sinfonia pe.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in G Major, K. 387: III. Andante cantabile

    Ensemble: Quatuor Zaïde.
    • Quatuor Zaïde: Amadeus.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 19.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The 49th Parallel (Prelude. Opening Titles)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057 - 1st movement

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Performer: Andrés Locatelli. Performer: Alessandro Nasello. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Pentatone.

  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 - No 6, L'aimable

    Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre.
    • Visages baroques.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Edelweiss (The Sound of Music)

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Winter Gardens.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Steffan

    Piano Concerto in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Staier. Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • Andreas Staier - Concertos & Solo Works for Fortepiano.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty: Panorama

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Tango des Fratellini (Le Bœuf sur le Toit)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Le Boeuf sur le toit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 119.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio

    Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • Palladio: I. Allegretto.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    Cotswold symphony H.47 (Elegy in memoriam William Morris)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Naxos.

  • Leroy Anderson

    A Trumpeter's Lullaby

    Performer: Kate Moore. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Anderson, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 - Sleigh Ride / The Typewriter / Plink, P.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Trio No 22 in D major for strings, Op 14 No 4 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini: Trio, Quartet, Quintet & Sextet for strings: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 13.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
    • Dorian.
    • 1.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Viola Concerto in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 11.

  • Henry Purcell

    Suite from the Fairy Queen

    Ensemble: Palisander.
    • MCX.

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlesienne Suite no.2)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Piano Concerto in D flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Chandos.

  • Eduardo Di Capua

    O sole mio

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Daniele Callegari.
    • Rolando Villazon: Tenor.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 1.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Maria & Mambo (West Side Story) arr for brass ensemble

    Music Arranger: Matthias Höfs. Ensemble: German Brass.
    • Trip to America.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 13.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 2 in E minor (Finale)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leo McFall.
    • Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 4.

  • Helvi Leiviskae

    Kevaan tulo [The Coming of Spring] (Orchestral Suite no.2 Op.11)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Helvi Leiviskä: Orchestral Works Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 203.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concert No 1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • Beethoven.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia from Cantata No 29

    Performer: Olivier Latry.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida, Act 2: Egyptian March and Triumphal March

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verdi: Aida.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 20.

  • Julian Nott

    Theme from Wallace and Gromit

    Music Arranger: Nic Raine. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tolga Kaşif.
    • Greatest Film Classics.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 9.

  • Franz Liszt

    Un Sospiro

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Bertrand.
    • Amalie's Cosmos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.

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