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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

Last on

Sun 22 Sep 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Anon.

    Al alva venid buen amigo

    Performer: Tom Finucane. Singer: Catherine Bott.
    • LINN.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in F minor BWV.1056

    Performer: Lukas Foss. Performer: Elizabeth Mann. Performer: John Feeney. Ensemble: Elysium String Quartet.
    • ELYSIUM.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Gary Cutt.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gustav Holst

    Summer (from Two Eastern Pictures)

    Performer: Louise Thomson. Choir: Corvus Consort. Conductor: Freddie Crowley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Claudio Abbado - The Symphony Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arranged for Two Guitars by Julian Bream

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: Julian Bream.
    • Together.
    • RCA Gold Seal.
    • 12.
  • Jean-Baptiste Barrière

    Barrière: Sonata No. 10, G-major - Andante

    Performer: Thomas Demenga. Performer: Patrick Demenga.
    • Knaifel, Barrière: Lux Aeterna.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninov: 10 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 4 in D Major. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Rachmaninoff: Preludes, Op. 23 & 32.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Music from the Mountains: Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Ari Rasilainen.
    • Finlandia.
    • 1-4.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (Perpetuum Mobile)

    Performer: Cristina Bianchi.
    • Scarlatti, Baltin & Others: Harp Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op 333

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.
    • New Year's Concert 2010.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Eric Whitacre

    I thank you God (3 Songs of Faith)

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Andante e rondo ungarese in C Minor for Bassoon & Orchestra, Op. 35, J. 158

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Mozart, R. Strauss & Weber: Pieces for Wind Soloist & Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Robert Farnon

    The Peanut Polka

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics 2: New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears

    Performer: Sergio Bucheli. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Jordi Savall

    Alla turca (Allegretto) after Mozart

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Venezia Millenaria 700 - 1797.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 12.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Lotus Blossom

    Orchestra: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • ...And His Mother Called Him Bill.
    • OKEH.
    • 12.

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