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Launch the day with classical music

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 5 Apr 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Gordon Jacob

    Quintet for clarinet & strings (3rd mvt: Rhapsody)

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.
    • HELIOS.
  • Mel Bonis

    Berceuse, Op 23 No 1

    Performer: Maria Stembolskaya.
    • Ligia.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String quintet in E major Op.11 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Smithsonian Chamber Players.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets Op.11, Nos. 4-6.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Super flumina Babylonis

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Choir: The Sixteen.
    • The Flowering of Genius.
    • Coro.
    • 7.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Pedrelliana [ѿýnajes]

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, The Three-Cornered Hat & ѿýnajes.
    • Chandos.
    • 118.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola and orchestra, Op 88 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gérard Caussé. Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Bruch/Werke fur Klarinette und Viola.
    • Erato.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Only in sleep for soprano and chorus

    Singer: Rachel Ambrose Evans. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights and other Choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Liepāja Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 3 No 1 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Zefira Valova. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Benda, Graun, Saint-Georges, Sirmen: Violin Concertos.
    • 貹é.
    • 8.
  • Grace Williams

    Sextet for oboe, trumpet & piano quartet (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: London Chamber Ensemble.
    • Grace Williams: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    The Night Winds [3 Tone-Pictures, Op.5 No.3]

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Taylor: Through the Looking Glass - Griffes: Poem - The Pleasure Dome of Kubla K.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D 899 No 4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Swedish Rhapsody No 1 (Midsummer Vigil)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Scherzo in C sharp minor

    Performer: Nina Kavtaradze.
    • Mussorgsky: Piano Music Vol. 1.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 3.
  • Enrique Granados

    Andaluza (Danzas españolas Set 2)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos - The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn - String Quartets Op.74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36 (3rd mvt: Scherzo)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • NSO.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    Sinfonia No.2 in B flat major

    Ensemble: Ensemble Arte Musica. Director: Francesco Cera.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Olivia Belli

    Mirando

    • Intermundia.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 7.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four English Dances, Set 1, Op 27

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 5 Apr 2025 06:30