Sound was mostly of pelting rain 😂

Back on Monday 🙂

Firstborn enjoyed the trip to some mud on the top of a hill in the drizzle this afternoon. The Shorelark (Horned Lark) at Mow Cop in Cheshire is a fine looking thing.

#birding #ukbirding

Breakfast on bbcradio3 to start your week. Sibelius was born on 8 December 1865, and today is Finland's annual Day of Music, so we'll treat you to Sibelius's 5th Symphony. Bach Before 7 is a great new album from Solomon's Knot and there's a Wren for the dawn chorus 📻

Niche Christmas dec, a Red-spotted Bluethroat! 😂 How's everyone's trees getting on? Still upright? Still got some needles on? Still in the box and nowhere close to coming out yet? Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live. With you till 9.30 📻

And here they come... lots of excellent new Christmas albums. All so different and we'll be dabbling with them in Thursday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. See you there!

Good morning! George Gershwin gave the first performance of his Piano Concerto on this date 100 years ago. So a great recent recording with Danil Trifonov as soloist in Wednesday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3.

Up on the hill where Sibelius once stood on his honeymoon in eastern Finland. Views that inspired his Karelia Suite and we'll be playing part of that in Breakfast on bbcradio3. 6.30-9 30. Come join us.

Day 1 on your Advent calendar! A couple of photos of St Nicholas church at Salthouse in Norfolk - composer EJ Moeran died on this date 75 years ago & his father was vicar at the church. Did the local landscape influence his music? We'll be playing some in BBCRadio3 Breakfast

Welcome to Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. I love this album cover - part of a huge project to record all 107 of Haydn's symphonies and just a taste from it coming later. And this morning's dawn chorus was a Güldenstädt's Redstart. All is good!

Morning! Back after a little social media break. And slightly worrying to see it was 16 degrees warmer this morning compared to yesterday. I was scraping ice off the car in -4 on Wednesday, today I'm in shorts and T-shirt. Breakfast on BBCRadio3 from 6.30-9.30. Happy Thursday!

It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.

Two great composers sharing a birthday today - Fanny Mendelssohn and Aaron Copland. Both in Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. And the dawn chorus was a Fieldfare. Here with you till 9.30. Happy Friday!

A tragedy in two short scenes. Yesterday at Broadcasting House for Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Nobody wants an eclair at 6.30am. Back to today's Breakfast in Salford and a double helping of Bach, Gustav Mahler's Blumine and a new release of chamber music by Augusta Holmes.

Music by the intriguing and overlooked Rita Strohl in Tuesday's Breakfast on bbcradio3. Bach Before 7 features the brilliant Belgian oboist Marcel Ponseele. Two of today's top string quartets - Chiaroroscuro and Dover. And the dawn chorus was a Shorelark recorded in Lapland.

16yo Hilary Hahn on her 1996 debut album for today's Bach Before 7 in BBCRadio3 Breakfast. It was a Black-faced Bunting in the dawn chorus and at 7.15 I'll be setting you Monday's brain teaser with the Morning Stretch. See you there 📻

A few very distant Cranes through the heat haze from when we visited Slimbridge on the on BBCRadio3 Breakfast roadtrip. Today's dawn chorus started with Cranes on the plains of Spain. Elgar's Sospiri on the way shortly and a fantastic festival overture by Madeleine Dring. Yay!

Love this painting of Joseph Bologne! Master swordsman & star violinist in Paris at the end of the 18th century. One of his violin concertos in Thursday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. The dawn chorus was a Collared Forest-Falcon. & Bach Before 7 is a warning to watch out for the Devil!

Eye level with a whopper of a parasol mushroom. Got to get your kicks in life somehow 😂. Breakfast on BBCRadio3 6.30-9.30. The dawn chorus is a Melodious Warbler, Bach Before 7 will need no introduction, choral music by Anna Lapwood and pianist Andras Schiff playing Mozart.

Good morning! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is live. The dawn chorus was a pair of Coal Tits, and a couple of great new releases on the way from the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet and the Australian Chamber Orchestra celebrating their 50th birthday.

Love the rough seas! Had a great time away in north Norfolk but fab to be back for Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Thanks to brilliant Linton Stephens for last week. The dawn chorus this morning was a flock of Wigeon. And it's Monday, so quiz time with the moooooorning streeeeeeetch

My last view of staring into this for a week. Friday's Breakfast on bbcradio3 is up & running. In Bach Before 7 it's the battle between the Greek gods Phoebus and Pan, there's Sibelius's Violin Concerto and just before 9 a great new live recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.

A Magpie at sunset last night. A bit too hard on the ear for the Breakfast dawn chorus on BBCRadio3! 😬 So it was an American Robin for Thursday 🇺🇸. 6.30-9.30. See you there!

Good morning! It was a Pied Wagtail in the dawn chorus today to start bbcradio3 Breakfast. Bach Before 7 is cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and later there's extracts from Verdi's Macbeth. Double, double toil and trouble... etc ... 🧙‍♀️

Morning! Huge congratulations to Eric Lu, at one time a BBCRadio3 New Generation Artist, last night the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition. You can hear Eric playing Schubert in Tuesday's Breakfast. And the dawn chorus was a Lapland Bunting

Hope you had a good weekend and with it being Monday it's the Morning Stretch quiz in Breakfast on bbcradio3. A Goldfinch was our dawn chorus and Bach Before 7 is from his 2nd Orchestral Suite. Thanks for joining us!

Distant and only just coming out of the murk, but great to hear and see this group of Whooper Swans from the back door yesterday. Friday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3 is with you till 9.30. Thanks for listening!

In Breakfast on bbcradio3 a little tribute to Angela Lansbury who would have been 100 today. Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, the legendary pianist Maurizio Pollini playing Chopin and bask in the brilliance of Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole. 6.30-9.30

Loving all the mushrooms at the moment. This is a Lawyer's Wig 😂 Breakfast on BBCRadio3 started with a sprout in the dawn chorus, a Sprosser, or a Thrush Nightingale. Here with you till 9.30. Happy Tuesday!

A weekend of stunning weather and light! Breakfast on BBCRadio3 till 9.30. Siskin was our dawn chorus birdsong and with it being Monday, come and have a go at our Morning Stretch quiz.