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Brighten your day with 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 contact the show by emailing [email protected].

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Music Played

  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Musiques de cinéma - Pachelbel: Canon (From "Ordinary People").
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Shepherd's Hey

    Performer: Amy Dickson.
    • In Circles.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Fergus McCreadie

    Morning Moon

    Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: Rob Luft.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The little girl Juliet (Romeo and Juliet Op.64)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.
    • 10.

  • Carlo Monza

    String Quartet in E Flat "La Caccia" (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Monza: Opera in Musica.
    • NAIVE.
    • 25.

  • Miguel Llobet Solés

    La pastoreta (Canciones populares catalanas)

    Performer: Koki Fujimoto.
    • Miguel Llobet: Canciones Populares Catalanas.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    • MCA Records.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Suite for strings, Op 1a

    Orchestra: Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • British Music for Strings III.
    • CPO.
    • 1-5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Boléro

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

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Rainy Day

    Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Conductor: Ellie Slorach.
    • Sullivan: Part Songs; The Long Day Closes.
    • MPR.

  • María Teresa Prieto

    El palo verde (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Cordoba Orchestra. Conductor: José Luis Temes.
    • Verso.

  • María Teresa Prieto

    El palo verde (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Cordoba Orchestra. Conductor: José Luis Temes.
    • Verso.

  • 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.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival overture

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Monty Python

    Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

    • Monty Python Sings.
    • Charisma Catalogue.
    • 1.

  • Zequinha de Abreu

    Tico Tico No Fubá

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • ¡Fiesta!.
    • Telarc.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C major H.17.4 for piano

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

  • Gang Chen

    Sunshine Over Tashkurgan

    Performer: Chloe Chua. Conductor: Rodolfo Barráez. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Butterfly Lovers Concerto & Paganini.
    • Pentatone.
    • 108.

  • Eric Whitacre

    This Marriage

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Enjoy The Silence.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 2.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Conductor: Myer Fredman. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Delius: Paris / Brigg Fair / Eventyr / Irmelin / La Calinda.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Patrick Hadley

    Kinder Scout

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Martin Peerson

    The Fall of the Leafe

    Performer: Skip Sempé.
    • The Virgin Harpsichord.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 103.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • The Tchaikovsky Album.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 4.

  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel

    Trumpet Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No 1

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • La Danse.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 11.

  • Léo Delibes

    Prelude (Jean de Nivelle)

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • Léo Delibes: Jean de Nivelle.
    • Bru Zane.

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