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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

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Music Played

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione for oboe, cello and strings

    Performer: Julia Girdwood. Performer: Robert Truman. Ensemble: Consort of London. Conductor: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.

  • Traditional Spanish

    The Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Sally Beamish. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • J S Bach - The Cello Suites - Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 37.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos: Hough/Dallas Symphony Orch/Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in E flat major Op.2`11

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
    • Arcangelo Corelli Opus 2 and 4: Chamber Sonatas.
    • Linn.
    • 38-40.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No 4 in D minor: Sarabande

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven - Handel: Suite No. 4 in D Minor: III. Sarabande.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Mystical Songs: No. 3, Love Bade Me Welcome

    Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron. Conductor: Michael Waldron. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Colourise.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 202.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Mazurka in B flat major Op.32

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Byrd

    Fantasia à 5 'Two in One'

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Virgin.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Music Arranger: Roger Turner. Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • The Lark Ascending.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    String Quintet in E major, Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Joachim Griesheimer. Ensemble: Mannheimer Streichquartett.
    • CPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.2 in B flat major D.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thais)

    Performer: Bomsori. Orchestra: Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Violin on Stage.
    • DG.
    • 5.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Quartet in A flat major for piano and strings: 2nd mvt

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem: In paradisum

    Performer: Harrison Cole. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Erik Satie

    3 Gnossiennes - Set 2

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major RV.428 'The Goldfinch'

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • EMI.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Notos Quartett.
    • Hungarian Treasures.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.

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