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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Alissa Firsova

    Stabat Mater

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Spirit, Strength & Sorrow.
    • Coro.
    • 2.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Lullaby

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Stained Glass.
    • BIS.
    • 108.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, Op.56`3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Bis.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (3rd mvt: Tempo di Minuetto)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Quintet Op.16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Cigleris. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: John Mills. Performer: Lydia Lowndes-Northcott. Performer: Bozidar Vukotic.
    • Gipps: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 302.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 7 (2nd mvt. "Nachtmusik")

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande (Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 447)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Stewart Eaton. Performer: William Conway. Performer: Enno Senft. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stefan Rath.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quintet in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ralph Kirshbaum. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Dario Marianelli

    Pride and Prejudice (End Credits)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch.
    • Pride and Prejudice: 15th Anniversary Edition.
    • Universal Music Classics & Jazz.
    • 17.
  • John Duarte

    Sonatina di primavera (1st mvt.)

    Ensemble: Quartetto Santórsola.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Arthur Somervell

    Violin Concerto in G Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV.1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michele Barchi. Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Calum Martin

    Martyrdom (1st mvt.)

    Composer: Craig Armstrong. Composer: Hugh Wilson. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Performer: Craig Armstrong. Performer: Calum Martin. Performer: Helen Thomson. Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Cecilia Weston.
    • The Edge of the Sea.
    • Modern Recordings.
    • 12.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater in F minor)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

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