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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

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

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, October: Autumn Song

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas and Melisande Suite, I. At the Castle Gate

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande Suite, Musik zu einer Szene & 3 Pièces pour orch.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Pérotin

    Viderunt omnes

    Conductor: David Munrow. Orchestra: Early Music Consort of London. Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: David James. Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Singer: Paul Elliott. Singer: Martyn Hill. Singer: Leigh Nixon. Singer: John Potter. Singer: Geoffrey Shaw.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Charterhouse Suite mvts 1-3

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: I. Sinfonia

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.
    • Kantaten.
    • Ricercar.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: II. Christ lag in Todesbanden

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.
    • Kantaten.
    • Ricercar.
    • 11.

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt, Serenade)

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Mirare.
    • 111.

  • Ina Boyle

    Violin Concerto, (mvt 3)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Women.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 10-12.

  • Nicola Porpora

    Orlando: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Royal Chamber Opera Company of Barcelona. Director: Juan Bautista Otero.
    • K617.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra: Pastoral and Hymn

    Performer: Chris Parkes. Singer: Laurence Kilsby. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 'Gran partita' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Feilding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Oliver Pashley. Performer: Ausiàs Garrigós Morant. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest. Performer: David Stark.
    • Mark Simpson: Geysir - Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran par.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 201.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin Sonata in B minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Frank Almond. Performer: William Wolfram.
    • Avie.

  • John Dowland

    Come Again

    Music Arranger: Sting. Music Arranger: Edin Karamazov. Singer: Sting. Performer: Edin Karamazov.
    • Songs From The Labyrinth.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

  • Christopher Tye

    In nomine à 5, 'Crye'

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • In Nomine - English music for concort of viols.
    • AMON RA.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Director: Christophe Rousset. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Trad. Irish

    Fruitmarket Reels

    • Lá Nua.
    • Lúnasa Records.
    • 4.

  • Ronald Binge

    Miss Melanie

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: George Weldon.
    • British Light Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol: mvt 1,3-5

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo Classics.

  • Anne Dudley

    Jeeves and Wooster (Theme)

    Ensemble: Dover Street Jazzomaniacs.
    • The World of Jeeves and Wooster.
    • EMI.
    • 001.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite - Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro & Harpsichord Co.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Trad.

    My Lagan Love

    Performer: Joseph Havlat. Music Arranger: Joseph Havlat. Singer: Lotte Betts-Dean.
    • Delphian.

  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Concerto for Two Pianos, Op 63 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov. Performer: Olga Pashchenko. Orchestra: Suomalainen barokkiorkesteri. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Dussek: Concerto for Two Pianos & Chamber Works.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 (Rondo-finale)

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Rafael Payare.
    • Pentatone.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alla Hornpipe (Water Music Suite in D)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky.
    • Handel: Water & Fire.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.

  • Gertrude van den Bergh

    Lied for piano

    Performer: Frans van Ruth.
    • NM CLASSICS.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in B flat, H436 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • C.P.E. Bach: 3 Cello Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

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