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Roll out of bed into 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 the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Fri 9 May 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Variations in f minor

    • Haydn: Variations & Sonatas.
    • Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Musica.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485 (1st mvt.)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Schubert : Symphonies Nos 5, 8, 'Unfinished' & Overtures.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.

  • Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin

    Flute Concerto in e minor-

    Performer: Wilbert Hazelzet. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • French Baroque Concertos.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Composer: Remo Giazotto. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 18.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso in E major/minor Op.14 for piano

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz.
    • Encore!.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
    • 2.

  • Haydn Wood

    The Horse Guards, Whitehall (London Landmarks Suite)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.

  • Leonard Cohen

    Hallelujah

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Didier Osindero. Performer: Alinka Rowe. Performer: Yong Jun Lee.
    • Inspiration.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alleluia (Exsultate, jubilate K165)

    Singer: Arleen Augér. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat, K.137 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Engegårdkvartetten.
    • LAWO.

  • Léo Delibes

    Les filles de Cadix

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Suite española (Granada)

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • RCA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mazurka-Oberek in D major

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Liszt

    Grandes études de Paganini No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor "La camla"

    • Liszt: La camla.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Intermezzo Symphonique in Modo Classico

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Mussorgsky - Without the Sun.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 002.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess Suite

    Composer: Jaroslav Kropacek.
    • White Picket Fence Productions.

  • George Gershwin

    Lady, be Good!: I'd rather Charleston

    Performer: Fred Astaire. Performer: Adele Astaire.
    • SAVILLE.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    L'anneau d'argent

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Clara Schumann & Great Female Composers.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 33.

  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 May 2025 06:30
    BBC Radio 3