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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney with the best Classical music to start Sunday. Includes the Dawn Chorus at 6:45.

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Sun 13 Oct 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Walk With Ivor Gurney.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Sept papillons

    Performer: Senja Rummukainen.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (Variations 16-18)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: CBSO Chorus. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics & Jazz.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in C major, Op 9 No 5 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 20.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY.

  • Clara Schumann

    Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, Op 16 No 2

    Performer: Hélène Boschi.
    • Clara Schumann Piano Works.
    • CALLIOPE.
    • 002.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Pace (arr. for brass ensemble)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major, RV.93 (2nd mvt, Largo)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 8.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne (Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80)

    Performer: Robert Thuillier. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Armin Jordan.
    • Pavane: The music of Gabriel Faure.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70: 3rd mvt

    • Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2; Souvenir de Florence.
    • Alto.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem in D minor: 'Hostias'

    Composer: Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 16.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Piees, Book 8, Op.65 No.6)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Chorale-Prelude 'Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ', BuxWV 224

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude: The Complete Organ Works - 2, Christopher Herrick, Organ of Nidaros C.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor: 2nd mvt

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • DG.

  • Josephine Lang

    Mazurka, Op.49 No.2

    Performer: Ian Tindale.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.4 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77 - III. Un sonnet d'amour

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.

  • Richard Sherman

    Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag), from Mary Poppins

    Performer: Gary Beecher. Singer: Niamh O'Sullivan.

  • Charles Gounod

    Mors et Vita: Judex

    Orchestra: Richard Hickox Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Decca.

  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C Major: 2nd mvt

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise": 4th mvt

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: Six String Quartets, Op.76.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.

  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Spartacus Suites: SNO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

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    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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