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Wake up 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

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Nocturne

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Apres un reve

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Moon Shadows.
    • Chandos.
    • 113.

  • Frederick Delius

    Florida Suite (At Night)

    Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North.
    • Delius: Florida Suite - Over the Hills and Far Away.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Blackadder. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 2, 3 & 5 [Live].
    • AAM Recordings.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Scarf Dance (Callirhoë)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices - New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings, Op.6 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Johann Baptist Vanhal

    Symphony in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Helmrath.
    • Bohemian Classicism.
    • Orfeo.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat Mater (I. Stabat Mater dolorosa and VII. Eja mater)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Vivaldi: Pietà. Sacred Works for Alto.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet in B flat major 'Milanese'

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Three Divertissements (No 2)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Victor Herbert

    March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland)

    Orchestra: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.
    • Marco Polo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano concerto no.4 in G major Op.58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 104.

  • Pedro Iturralde

    Pequena Czarda

    Music Arranger: John Harle. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale (3rd mvt "Finale")

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Invitation.
    • Pentatone.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B Minor 'Pathétique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Chemins de l'Amour

    Performer: Sherri Lun.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Violin Concerto No 1

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Haydn: Paris Symphonies - Violin Concerto No. 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Annees de pelerinage - Italie)

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Love and Death.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 3.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    La Caprice de Nanette (Petite Suite)

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • MARCO POLO.

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