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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Philip Glass: Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in C major, K.315

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.
    • Signum.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Fear No More the Heat of the Sun

    Music Arranger: Patrick Hawes. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mortifie-nous par ta bont茅 (Cantata No 22)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Midnight at Notre-Dame.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid - old Viennese dance no. 2

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Philip Wilby

    Family Portraits (Lowry Sketchbook)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: James Watson.
    • Philip Wilby: Sacred Symphonies: Black Dyke Mills Band, California State Univers.
    • Doyen.
    • 2.
  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Erwin und Elmire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Peter G眉lke.
    • Masters of the Goethe Era.
    • Capriccio.
    • 6.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival of the Animals: Elephant

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns / Poulenc / Say.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 5.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival of the Animals: Fossils

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns / Poulenc / Say.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 12.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta: II. Molto vivace

    Orchestra: 91福利社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Francis Poulenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in D Minor: Sarabande

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer.
    • Vocalise.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

    Harp concerto in B flat major (Rondeau - Allegro)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32 : I. Mars, the Bringer of War

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Sextet in D major, Op 110 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi. Ensemble: Sinfonia Cymru.
    • Sterndale Bennett & Mendelssoh: Piano Sextets.
    • Artalinna.
    • 6.
  • Kristine Tjogersen

    Starry Night

    Performer: Marcus Weiss. Singer: Jenny Hval. Ensemble: T酶yen Fil og Klafferi.
    • Between Trees.
    • Aurora Records AS.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Gabriel Chmura.
    • DG.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Shower

    Conductor: Stephen Shellard. Ensemble: Proteus Ensemble.
    • There is Sweet Music: Part-Songs by Sir Edward Elgar.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 13.
  • Frederick Delius

    North Country Sketches - IV. The march of Spring

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 8.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op 96

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Paul Simon

    91福利社less

    Composer: Joseph Shabalala. Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • UNIVERSAL MUSIC TV.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pini di Roma

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Yann Tiersen

    Comptine d'un autre 茅t茅, l'apr猫s-midi

    Performer: Yann Tiersen.
    • Le Fabuleux destin d'Am茅lie Poulain (Bande originale du film).
    • UGC Images/ADA France.
    • 3.
  • Clara Schumann

    6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 1, Ich stand in dunklen Tr盲umen

    Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestrator: Amy Harman.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, Act III: Isoldes Liebestod

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Apr 2026 06:30