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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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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat major, op.55 no.2

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Lumen Valo.
    • Sigillum.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Mallorca - barcarola, arr. for 2 guitars [orig.piano Op.202]

    Music Arranger: Katona Twins. Ensemble: Katona Twins.
    • Katona Twins - Albeniz.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma Mère l'Oye: Deuxième tableau: II. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant. Lent

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Trad.

    Jasspodspolska

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Da Capo.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K.375 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Impromptus: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    Idillo-concertino in A major, Op.15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Padova e del Veneto Orchestra. Conductor: Zsolt Hamar.
    • CPO.
  • Louis Vierne

    Organ symphony no.2 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Vierne: Organ Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • BNL.
    • 3.
  • Arnór Dan

    For now I am Winter

    Composer: Ólafur Arnalds. Performer: VOCES8. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande from Keyboard suite in D minor, HWV 437

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Music Arranger: Olivier Fourés. Ensemble: Daniel Hope Ensemble.
    • DG.
  • Ludovic Lamothe

    Danza No.3

    Performer: Célimène Daudet.
    • NoMadMusic.
  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-Danse (Capriol Suite)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • Peter Warlock

    Pavane (Capriol Suite)

    Ensemble: Equale Brass.
    • NIMBUS.
  • Peter Warlock

    Tordion (Capriol Suite)

    Performer: Leif Karlsson. Music Arranger: Stanley Taylor. Ensemble: Svenska Blockflöjtskvartetten.
    • Chamber Sound.
  • Peter Warlock

    Bransles (Capriol Suite)

    Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • DELOS.
  • Peter Warlock

    Pieds-en-l'air (Capriol Suite)

    Performer: John Keys. Music Arranger: John Keys.
    • Organ Miscellany 3.
    • 20.
  • Peter Warlock

    Mattachins (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Chandos.
  • Clara Schumann

    Trio in G minor Op.17 for piano and strings: Scherzo

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker suite etc: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 25.
  • Francesco Manfredini

    Concerto Grosso in C major, Op.3 No.12 'Per il Santissimo Natale'

    Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana. Conductor: Jaroslav Krček.
    • Naxos.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Tangamerican

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • RISING SUN.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for clarinet, viola and orchestra in E minor, Op. 88: 3rd movement

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Gérard Caussé. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Erato.
  • Bo Holten

    First Snow

    Choir: 鶹Լ Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
  • Anton Bruckner

    String Quartet in C Minor, WAB 111: III. Scherzo. Presto

    Ensemble: Altomonte Ensemble.
    • Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 & String Quartet in C Minor, WAB 11.
    • Gramola Records.
    • 203.
  • Trad.

    Danza del Altiplano

    Music Arranger: Leo Brouwer. Performer: Robert Beer.
    • Cuban Landscape.
    • Koch.
    • 19.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Kenilworth March

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • Life Divine: Black Dyke Mils Band.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.23 (2nd mvt: Presto giocoso)

    Performer: André Watts. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Telarc.
    • 2.

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