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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford, including BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Views from the M9 by Glaswegian composer Aileen Sweeney is inspired by one of the largest pieces of public art in the UK, The Kelpies. A pair of monumental steel horse-heads by sculptor Andy Scott between Falkirk and Grangemouth, they were unveiled in 2014, just months before the Scottish Referendum. It’s recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 3 No 4 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Handel - Concerti Grossi Op 3.
    • Erato.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Piano quintet in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Price: Piano Quintet in A Minor: II. Andante con moto.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor: 1. Kyrie eleison

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.

  • Claude Debussy

    Par les rues et par les chemins (Iberia)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • Debussy: La Mer, Images.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

  • Helen Leach

    Diary of the Bee (1. Bluebell and 2. Thistle)

    Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.
    • Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach.
    • Divine Art.

  • Edward Elgar

    Severn Suite Op.87 (Minuet)

    Ensemble: The Fairey Band. Conductor: James Gourlay.
    • Brass from the Masters, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.

  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Symphony in 17 parts in F major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mendelssohn : Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Gary Carpenter

    Ein musikalisches Snookerspiel: Frame 4. Allegro pesante

    Ensemble: Ensemble 10/10. Conductor: Gary Carpenter.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • Gary Carpenter

    Ein musikalisches Snookerspiel: Frame 5. Finale (Vivace)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 10/10. Conductor: Gary Carpenter.
    • Die Flimmerkiste.
    • NMC Recordings Limited.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    May (Bright Nights), from The Seasons

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Modlitwa

    Composer: Andrezej Panufnik. Performer: Imogen Whitehead. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Patrick Milne.
    • Connection.
    • Own label.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No.38 in F major (3rd mvt.)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Music For You: Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • John Rutter

    Suite for Strings (III. O waly waly)

    Composer: John Rutter. Director: Yasunao Ishida. Director: Yasunao Ishida. Ensemble: Ishida-gumi. Ensemble: Ishida-gumi.
    • Ishida-gumi 10th Anniversary 2024 Spring.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 9.

  • John Rutter

    Suite for Strings (IV. Dashing away)

    Director: Yasunao Ishida. Ensemble: Ishida-gumi.
    • Ishida-gumi 10th Anniversary 2024 Spring.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets)

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Holst - The Planets / Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Aileen Sweeney

    Views from the M9

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Hans Vonk.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concertos: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 in A Major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Theme and Variations in A minor, Op 1 No 24

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • Paganini, 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 24.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kevin Cole. Orchestra: National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
    • Gershwin, Harbison, Tower & Piston: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Carl Nielsen

    String Quintet in G major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tim Frederiksen. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1.
    • Da Capo.
    • 12.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice (Dance of the Furies)

    Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcast

  • Monday 06:30
    BBC Radio 3