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Ease into the day with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 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

  • Franz Berwald

    Symphony No.1 in G minor "Sinfonie Serieuse" (Adagio maestoso)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse, Op. 16

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Merci.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No.7 in G minor, BWV.1058 (2nd mvt: Andante)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Bach: The Complete Harpsichord Concertos: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 8.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

  • John Ireland

    When May is in His Prime

    Conductor: George Parris. Choir: The Carice Singers.
    • Ireland & Moeran: Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 601.

  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the month of maying

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • EMI.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Concertino in G major for cor anglais

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
    • CPO.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Schindler's List (Reprise)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • MCA.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No. 4, Op. 61: I. Moderato

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4, Song for Orchestra & Knight in Armour.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu in B minor Op.5 no. 5

    Performer: Folke Gr盲sbeck.
    • BIS.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta (4th movement)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in A Major HWV.361, Op.1 No.3

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.

  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • En Albion: Medieval Polyphony in England.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Pi猫ce in C Major for Cello and Orchestra

    Performer: David Delacroix. Conductor: Sir Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.
    • Chausson: Pi猫ce in C Major for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 39 (Orch. by Jacques Gai.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Linn.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche, Op.165d

    Composer: Darius Milhaud. Performer: Oleg Shebata-Dragan. Performer: Oleg Shebata-Dragan. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Anna Skryleva. Conductor: Anna Skryleva.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (2nd Adagio)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Gustav Holst

    Indra, God of Storm and Battle (Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op 24)

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Christopher Maltman.
    • Naxos.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of New York. Conductor: Salvatore Di Vittorio.
    • Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

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