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Start the day with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford, including 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, film composer Natalie Holt, who has scored Loki, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rivals, reflects on the eruption of Eyjafjallaj枚kull, the Icelandic volcano which grounded international air travel in April 2010. Her piece for piano quintet is a co-commission with the London Soundtrack Festival.

You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    A Blown Away Leaf (On an Overgrown Path)

    Performer: Jan Barto拧.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sonata for Strings No.1 (1st movement)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Marshall Marcus. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio (Gran Partita)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings in D minor, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan 膶i膷i膰. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Autrefois

    Performer: Shura Cherkassky.
    • DECCA.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Milonga del Angel

    Ensemble: New Tango Quintet.
    • AMERICAN CLAVE.

  • Philip Glass

    Mad Rush

    Music Arranger: Not specified. Music Arranger: Not specified. Performer: Thibault Cauvin. Performer: Ad茅la茂de Ferri猫re.
    • Sony.

  • Claude Debussy

    2 Arabesques

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Shi-Guang Cui

    Native Tune (Shandong Folk Suite)

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 22.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Trumpet Overture in C major, op. 101

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of Spring, Op.410

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Concerto for Birds & Orchestra, Op. 61 "Cantus Arcticus": II. Melancholy

    Conductor: Leif Segerstam. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Finland 100: A Century of Finnish Classics.
    • Ondine.
    • 302.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale Op.31

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 05.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin Sonata in G major (2nd mvt, 'Blues')

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Katia Lab猫que.
    • Viktoria Mullova - Recital, with Katia Labeque.
    • Onyx.
    • 11.

  • Natalie Holt

    Partita No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Harwood.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite: III. Busy-ness! (Allegro molto)

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 17.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Sad Doll (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite: V. The Wagon (Passes) (Allegretto)

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 19.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E minor, H.16.34 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Performer: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Stanislav Kochanovsky.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Trio in D major, Op 9 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: G茅rard Jarry. Performer: Serge Collot. Performer: Michel Tournus. Orchestra: Trio 脿 cordes fran莽ais.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Diabelli Variations, Op 120 (Variation 32)

    Performer: Georges Solchany.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 33.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Le Jazz

    Choir: Sbor Lubom铆ra P谩nka. Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Zbyn臎k Vost艡谩k.
    • Supraphon.

Broadcast

  • Mon 7 Apr 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3