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A fab week in France and now back for Breakfast on bbcradio3. 6.30-9.30 every weekday. Come join us!
Breakfast on BBCRadio3 from the Bishops Palace in Wells, Somerset. Good morning!
Just before a low flying attack squad of pigeons almost took one of my ears off. Live from Bath till 9.30 on BBCRadio3
A visit to Theatre Royal in Bath to see Gloria Obianyo in Shakespeare's As You Like It. And Gloria will be with us tomorrow for BBCRadio3 Breakfast.
That's very kind of you! Thanks
Day 2 of our BBCRadio3 Breakfast roadtrip. Welcome to Westonbirt National Arboretum! Too dark for photos right now, so here's the setup from yesterday afternoon. 6.30-9 30 with live music from the Bristol Ensemble 🌲🌳🌴
Welcome to WWTSlimbridge and day one of BBCRadio3 Breakfast from Gloucestershire, Somerset and taking you to the Proms at Bristol next weekend. And this morning there's live music from folk stars Miranda Rutter, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron. 6.30-9.30am all week
One last weekday Breakfast on BBCRadio3 from Salford for a while. On Monday we'll be starting our roadtrip in Gloucestershire at Slimbridge WWT. Moving on to Westonbirt Arboretum, then Bath, Wells Cathedral & Bishops Palace, and ending up at Tyntesfield house. I cannot wait!
A quick walk around Media City before sunrise. We started Breakfast on BBCRadio3 with a Bar-tailed Godwit for the dawn chorus. Come join us till 9.30!
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That's not a meteor strike on Media City, just a reflection on the glass 🤪 Breakfast on BBCRadio3 started with an American Mourning Dove recorded in New Hampshire and don't miss a brilliant new album from cellist Raphaela Gromes with a cello concerto by Marie Jaëll. See you there
An alehouse session from Barokksolistene at the overnight Prom. This was 90 minutes into the 8 hour marathon. And with Mahler's massive 3rd Symphony last night, in Breakfast on bbcradio3, let me know your pre-concert rituals. How do you prep to get the most from a big concert?
Thanks to the always excellent Linton for last week. I'm back for Breakfast @bbcradio3 & producer Barnaby took this photo of Salford Quays coming alive on Monday morning. Bach Before 7 was Jordi Savall on viola da gamba & we've some really interesting new releases. See you there!
Oh don't worry, I always laugh when I say it as well 😂
Yes, we're on air! My last Breakfast on bbcradio3 before a week off. It was a straightforward dawn chorus with a Blue Tit this morning . Bach Before 7 not quite as simple though, with pianist Murray Perahia. See you there!
Good morning! A Black Lark singing on the Kazakhstan steppe was today's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. With you now till 9.30 🥐☕️🫖 ... 🥂?
Great profile and interview with Kahchun Wong in The Times this morning. Can't wait to be there at his Proms debut with the Halle Orchestra on Saturday. And in Breakfast on bbcradio3 we started with a dawn chorus of cliffs packed full of Kittiwakes. Good morning!
Good morning from the Ship Canal! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live till 9.30. A Goldcrest was this morning's dawn chorus. It's violinist Viktoria Mullova in Bach Before 7, and seeing as the summer weather's long gone, Nigel Kennnedy plays Vivaldi's Autumn from the Four Seasons 🌧
Family amazed by the William Kentridge exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday. It really is very special! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 - it was a Crossbill in the dawn chorus. We'll also be celebrating the Lionesses and remembering the tongue-twisting brilliance of Tom Lehrer
Strange hazy light at Salford Quays this morning. We're live from here with Breakfast on bbcradio3 till 9.30 and a party of Long-tailed Tits were the stars of this morning's dawn chorus. Happy Friday!
A few quick games of swing ball last night before the torrential rain stopped play. In Breakfast on bbcradio3 we started with a dawn of a Western Meadowlark out on the Wyoming prairie. And there's a question whether today's Bach Before 7 is even by Bach??? Come join us!
Had a good chat with the local sheep last night 😃 In Wednesday's Breakfast on bbcradio3 the dawn chorus was a Lesser Whitethroat. & just before 9 it's George Ensescu's Romanian Rhapsody, based on a Transylvanian drinking song, which seems appropriate with the death of Ozzy 💔
Had a good chat with the local sheep last night 😃 In Wednesday's Breakfast on bbcradio3 the dawn chorus was a Lesser Whitethroat. & just before 9 it's George Ensescu's Romanian Rhapsody, based on a Transylvanian drinking song, which seems appropriate with the death of Ozzy 💔
It was a harbour full of Herring Gulls for the dawn chorus today in Breakfast on bbcradio3. Here's one at Hilbre Island on the Wirral. Plus there's Bach Before 7, Mozart Before 8 and Elgar Before 9.
Jawdropping playing from Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto at the First Night of the Proms! Missed it live, but caught up over the weekend. It's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 6.30 - 9.30 and it was a Crested Lark for the dawn chorus. Come and start the week with us ☕️
Good light up above Glossop last night. Thursday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is up and running! Purple Sandpipers were your birds for the dawn chorus. And this is the last Breakfast from Salford for this week... because tomorrow we're moving to the ROYAL ALBERT HALL! 🤯🤯🤯
Thought @tommckinney.bsky.social had started making up birds but no! here is a beautiful and beautifully named purple sandpiper from today’s dawn chorus:
Breakfast on bbcradio3 6.30-9.30. And I've just read that Walkmans and cassettes are apparently making a comeback! What did you listen to on yours? Do you still have one?
Please, sir, can I have some more Bach? 😂 Yes you can in Bach Before 7 on BBCRadio3 Breakfast. And there's Bach After 9 today as well! Happy Tuesday 🌧
Good weekend? We had a great time visiting family in Newmarket 📸. Back in Salford now for Breakfast on BBCRadio3 6.30-9.30. Keeping it super simple with a Dunnock for the dawn chorus, and Bach Before 7 is a new recording of his Cello Suites by Jian Wang. See you there!
It's going to be a toasty day! Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 started with a Blyth's Reed Warbler in the dawn chorus. Three hours of excellent music now till 9.30. Come give it a try! 🌞
Swifts were the stars of Thursday's dawn chorus in BBCRadio3 Breakfast. Just a little reminder to make the most of them over the next couple of weeks until they head south.
Golden Plover in the Pennines was this morning's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. This one 📸 was on the Snake Pass in Derbyshire. Come join us till 9.30!
Got to admire the quality of work from the Media City window cleaners! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 6.30-9.30 and a Song Sparrow singing in the USA was today's dawn chorus. Matthias Goerner is singing in Bach Before 7 and there's Steven Osborne's new album of Schubert. Oh yeah!
Went out at sunset last night for one final soaking 😂. It was a wet weekend in Glossop! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 - cello and piano for Bach Before 7 with Misha Maisky and Martha Argerich, and a Blackbird was singing in the dawn chorus. Oh, and there's Bach Before 8 as well today!
Puffins to end the week in the BBCRadio3 dawn chorus. György and Maria Kurtág are performing in today's Bach Before 7, we'll be having a dip in the North Sea with Johann Strauss, and heading out to the Hebrides with Felix Mendelssohn. It's all good! See you there
Thursday's dawn chorus was a Little Owl battling with a Nightingale. No birds were injured in the making of the recording. Good morning! Thursday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is up and running. Come join us till 9.30
House Martins were this morning's stars for the dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. It's one of the Brandenburg Concertos for Bach Before 7, there's pianist Yuja Wang in jawdropping from and a symphony from the astronomer who discovered Uranus with his sister. Happy 1st July!
Deck chairs already out at 5.30am at Media City! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live and it was a Great Reed Warbler for the dawn chorus. Smother yourself in factor 50 and join us for 3 hours of brilliant music.
Friday's Breakfast on bbcradio3 coming to you from Salford. Nuthatch is this morning's bird for the dawn chorus, Bach Before 7 is a great violin-piano pairing of Renaud Capucon & David Fray, a new album from violinist Henning Kraggerud & whalesong in music by Cassie Kinoshi
I'll have a look at what model it is for you ...
Morning! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 6.30-9.30. Cambodian Laughing-Thrush was a niche bird for the dawn chorus! Later there's a new album from choir Tenebrae, Claudio Abbado conducting Ravel, Pierre Boulez conducting Debussy and a brilliant recording of violinist Tasmin Little
Keeping it super simple with House Sparrows for the dawn chorus this morning. Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live till 9.30 - pianist Andras Schiff for Bach Before 7, music from the Palace of Versailles by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Louise Farrenc's 1st Symphony.
In Breakfast on bbcradio3 we'll be wishing composer Terry Riley a happy 90th birthday! Sardinian Warbler for the dawn chorus, Bach Before 7 is a legendary recording by cellist Pierre Fournier and we'll mark the opening of the Humber Bridge - and why not?
Good morning! Monday's dawn chorus was a Pied Wagtail in Breakfast on bbcradio3. Join us for Magdalena Kozena singing in Bach Before 7, remembering when Radio 3 broadcast every note by Beethoven in a week & music for a big day in Estonia where they're celebrating their midsummer
Already really warm at 5.30am. The Salford sunflowers are loving it. Breakfast BBCRadio3 is live till 9.30. The dawn chorus was an Eastern Meadowlark in the US of A, Bach Before 7 is from his 1st Orchestral Suite, and there's a hot wind blowing in a song by Monteverdi. 🌻🌻🌻
Good morning from Salford Quays! Britain's commonest bird, a Wren, for the dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. Bach Before 7 is from the St John Passion, some brilliant Estonian Dances by Eduard Tubin, 1st Symphony by Ruth Gipps from a recent release and Wynton Marsalis in 1984.
In Breakfast on bbcradio3 we'll be celebrating the immense legacy of a musical giant - Alfred Brendel. Recordings throughout the morning, including his final tour in 2008.
A Goldfinch for Tuesday's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. Hieronymous Bosch painted them the best! It's the great Trevor Pinnock on harpsichord for Bach Before 7, pianist Cecile Ousset playing Poulenc's Piano Concerto & a best-selling album of early music from the 1990s
We're live from 6.30 with Monday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Daniel Barenboim playing a pocket-sized piano sonata by Beethoven, Vivaldi with violinist Nicola Benedetti, and new albums from tenor Haitham Haidar & Orchestra of the Swan. And the dawn chorus is a Great Northern Diver
That's great news! Brilliant photos! 😍
Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live! It started with an Ancient Murrelet in Alaska for the dawn chorus. Bach Before 7 is a recording from legendary organist Helmut Walcha, there's a new album of Jessica Curry's music, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir of Florence & Mozart's Paris Symphony
Good morning! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 started with an Olive Tree Warbler. On the way - Chineke Orchestra in music by Coleridge-Taylor, there's Haydn from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and brilliant recordings with Europa Galante & Royal Scottish National Orchestra ☕️🍳🥐
The Manchester Ship Canal's looking particularly fine today! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 till 9.30. It was a Linnet in the dawn chorus, there's the spellbinding voice of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Bach Before 7 & brand new Shostakovich - a new recording of recently discovered pieces
It was a Snow Bunting for the dawn chorus in Breakfast on BBC Radio3. Here's one papped by my daughter Nancy. With you till 9.30 with Edward Elgar's String Quartet, Gabriel Faure's Requiem, chamber music by Florence Price, Cornish landmarks in a piece by Judith Bailey & plenty more!
A new week of Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. And there's two recent albums - Ruth Gipps' brilliant 5th Symphony and Chopin from always amazing Benjamin Grosvenor. Plus Elin Manahan Thomas singing Monteverdi, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and the dawn chorus was a Whinchat
Huge congratulations to the brilliant Danish String Quartet, at one time BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, last night awarded the Léonie Sonning Prize. Great stuff! You can hear them in Friday's Breakfast along with a dawn chorus from the world's smallest songbird
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Two great album covers - recordings made half a century apart and both in Thursday's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Bach Before 7 is from pianist Andras Schiff, all of Ravel's Mother Goose just before 9, and ahead of tonight's In Concert there's the @the_halle with conductor Mark Elder.
A garish streak of colour as the rain came in yesterday afternoon. Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 starts at 6.30 - the dawn chorus is a Great Snipe recorded in Finland, there's John Cage and JS Bach, and a new release from guitarist Alexandra Whittingham. Come join us!
Grim outside! So stay dry and bask in the warm glow of your smartspeaker listening to Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin, @StevenIsserlis playing a Sonata by Luise Adolphe le Beau and the dawn chorus is the pure magic of a Nightjar (aka Goatsucker!)
Morning! Thanks to Linton for last week and great to be back for Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Sedge Warbler is today's dawn chorus - I snapped this one belting out some verses a couple of weeks back. 6.30 - 9.30. See you there ☕️
That's so nice to hear. Always glad to know that a composer whose music I love is also a decent person!
Just read that Per Nørgård, one of the composing giants of our time, has died. With sad coincidence, he's programmed in our series at Kettle's Yard tomorrow night. Deni Teo and Joseph Havlat will be playing his Cantica for cello and piano. A nice way to remember a great life.
Grasshopper Warbler for the dawn chorus in Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Here's one from Spurn Point recently. Then ending the week with Elgar's 1st Symphony, violinist Hilary Hahn in Bach Before 7 & a new album with the symphony that Robert Schumann couldn't be bothered to finish!
Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 from 6.30. It was Northern Cardinal recorded in the US of A for the dawn chorus. Bach Before 7 is from the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and it was on this day 75 years ago that Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs were first performed. Welcome to Thursday!
Nice message from listener Rob asking for a Pied Flycatcher for Wednesday's dawn chorus in Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Here's one that was close to home recently. Bach Before 7 is the brilliant violinist Viktoria Mullova, plus Schubert, Debussy, Smyth & Bizet all in the first hour
Morning! Who's with us for Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 ? Here's a Curlew that flew over the house yesterday. But the dawn chorus was a Blue Rock Thrush recorded by the Med. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Amy Beach's Piano Quintet, a Cotswold Symphony by Gustav Holst... all to come 🙂
Good morning! Breakfast on BBC Radio 3, 6.30-9.30. There's music by Fela Sowande, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Joe Hisaishi and we'll be remembering the great Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra. The dawn chorus was a Yellow Wagtail recorded in Barnsley. Thanks for listening!
Keith Jarrett, Ilse Weber, Sean Connery and Traitors with Claudia Winkleman. Just a few things we'll be weaving into Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. And the dawn chorus was recorded in Mexico, the endemic Oaxaca Sparrow. Nearly the weekend. Happy Friday!
Safe to say the BBC Radio 3 team were relatively happy after winning Station of the Year at the ARIAs last night, along with the award for coverage of the Proms! In Breakfast it was a Whitethroat for the dawn chorus & here's a pic I took of one a few weeks back. Happy Thursday!
Apologies, late to post this morning, sorry. Too busy reading the papers! This morning's dawn chorus on Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 was a Yellowhammer, there's a brilliant recording of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Arvo Pärt's Lullaby & spectacular pianist Alice Sara Ott playing Beethoven
Good morning! Breakfast on BBCcRadio 3 from 6.30-9.30. A rarely heard symphony by Elsa Barraine, sensational cellist Anastasia Kobekina playing Robert Schumann, Dvorak from the mighty Lindsay Quartet and a new album of Ravel's Piano Concertos with Yeol Eum Son. Hope you enjoy it!
Good stuff going on under the back hedge last night! Good stuff in Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 this morning, perfect for hedgehogs and humans. A keyboard concerto for Bach Before 7, the brilliant Casals Quartet playing Haydn and music that Vaughan Williams wrote for Carnegie Hall ☕️
Something old, something new... Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 from 6.30. Adele & Fred Astaire singing with George Gershwin in 1926, to pianist Mariam Batsashvili's new album. Bach Before 7 is the perfect voice of Carolyn Sampson & the simple song of a Cirl Bunting for the dawn chorus.
Marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day in BBC Radio 3 Breakfast. Along with an arrangement by Brahms for Bach Before 7 and the dawn chorus is an American recording of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Good morning!
A lake in Finland that we rowed out on last summer, and the starting point for this morning's dawn chorus of Black-throated Divers in BBC Radio 3 Breakfast. And expect similar sonic beauty in Bach Before 7 - from his Magnificat. 6.30 - 9.30. Good morning!
Leif Ove Andsnes playing Grieg's Piano Concerto in Breakfast on BBC Radio3. Plus Doreen Carwithen's Piano Concerto, a Nocturne by Chopin from Maria João Pires, the Danish String Quartet play Haydn and it's a Redstart for the dawn chorus.
Producer Barnaby takes the dawn chorus in BBC Radio 3 Breakfast very seriously! Yep, it's screaming Swifts to the start the bank holiday programme. Bach Before 7 is from his Mass in B minor, there's Elgar for brass band, Sibelius's 2nd Symphony and new music from Aileen Sweeney
Pied Flycatcher bred in Glossop and we're easy to see locally until quite recently, but they've become really scarce now. So this male in full song, found by Paul Cole this morning, is a real winner. #ukbirding
Good morning from the Salford studio! Friday's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 starts at 6.30. It's Wood Warbler for the dawn chorus, cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach Before 7, Debussy from the Labeque Sisters, virtuosic violin with Hilary Hahn and Beethoven's 6th Symphony.
Morning! In Breakfast at 8.30 you can find out the next set of outstanding soloists and ensembles who'll be joining the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme from September. Plus plenty of music to mark May Day and it's a Skylark for this morning's dawn chorus.
Elisabeth Leonskaja and Sviatoslav Richter, two legendary musicians together on one piano playing Mozart in today's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. The dawn chorus is Golden Orioles recorded in Corfu and there's Beethoven's Violin Concerto in a new album from Arabella Steinbacher. Yay!
Good morning! Tuesday's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 - Janine Jansen playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons, a Melodie by Glazunov from cellist Han-Na Chang, Masaaki Suzuki conducting Bach Before 7, and Vaughan Williams's 5th Symphony with Vernon Handley and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Starting a new week of Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 with new albums. Plus Bach Before 7 is something pretty special from clarinettist Martin Fröst, there's Yuja Wang playing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto and the Black Dyke Band in concert. All starts at 6.30 🌞
Knockout views of a tame Grasshopper Warbler at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social today! 🤯🤯🤯 Plenty of common migrants in as well, with my first Sedge Warblers and Whitethroats of 2025. Yay!
Plenty more excitement around the BBC Proms in Radio 3 Breakfast this morning. Including the Proms coming to Bristol, Belfast, Sunderland, Gateshead and Bradford. And we'll be letting you know about Breakfast going out on the road for a week of outdoor broadcasts this summer!
Classical music-lovers annually cherish #BBCProms Day when a Summer of wonder is revealed. And what an invitation this year’s programme is for people who may be wary or unfamiliar. Do make a visit: it’s one of the UK’s great experiences, and you may get hooked for life!
Launch day for the BBC Proms! And in Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 we'll be skimming through the season and picking out plenty of highlights. Still getting my head around it all. But first impressions = WOW!
Recordings old and new in Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. James Galway in the 1970s, Michelle Cann playing Florence Price, a new release of Tchaikovsky from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn.
Two very different album covers, but two incredible violinists. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Maxim Vengerov both in Easter Monday's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Plus a double Bach Before 7 with Johann Sebastian and son Carl Philipp Emanuel. 6.30 - 9.30. Good morning!
For Good Friday and Bach Before 7 - a landmark recording with two legends. Alfred Deller singing part of Bach's Mass in B minor, directed by Gustav Leonhardt. Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 full of music for the Easter weekend. 6.30-9.30.
On their knees, the war pigs crawling... One of the earliest lyrics I can remember hearing! 😂
A female Pochard in south Derbyshire. Males are all trying to impress them at this time of year, as you'll hear in today's dawn chorus to start Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Bach Before 7 marks Maundy Thursday & there's a great album from brilliant Lucile Boulanger on viola da gamba.
Thanks David!
4 new albums getting their first play on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast today. Plus an all-star line-up of violinist James Ehnes playing Felix Mendelssohn, Haydn from the Chiaroscuro Quartet, guitarist Sean Shibe, conductor Vladimir Jurowski & a blast of the organ at Southwell Minster.
Good morning! A very special day celebrating 30 years of Private Passions on BBC Radio 3. 1,100 guests and every episode presented by Michael Berkeley! In Breakfast you can hear interview clips and music choices from David Attenborough, Kate Adie, Dudley Moore & Carol Ann Duffy.
Incredible views of Black-necked Grebes near Wakefield yesterday. And a great debut album from rising star pianist Anton Mejias to start a new week of Bach Before 7 on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast. 6.30 - 9.30. See you there!
Very late / very early back from Cambridge in the wee hours, but all is good at the Salford studio for Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Ina Boyle's String Quartet, pianist Yuja Wang doing what only she can do, Craig Ogden in Malcolm Arnold's Guitar Concerto... happy Friday!
Morning! The Black Dyke Band in Thursday's Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. There's a Seascape by Ruth Gipps inspired by a night in Broadstairs. Dvorak's American Quartet. And we'll be wishing a happy 70th birthday to soprano Lesley Garrett. All starts at 6.30
