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Sunday - Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 27 Dec 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer night's dream - incidental music (Op.61), Overture (Op.21)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • John Adams

    El Niño, Pt 1; ‘Hail, Mary, Gracious!’

    Singer: Daniel Bubeck. Singer: Brian Cummings. Singer: Steven Rickards. Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • John Adams: El Niño.
    • NONESUCH.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for flute, viola and harp

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • Decca.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata Sancti Polycarpi

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37; 3rd mvt, Rondo

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4.
    • ONYX.
    • 3.
  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quartet in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet.
    • Lorelt.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Duet: 'Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen', from Part 3 of Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Olaf Bär. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • JS Bach - Sacred Vocal Works.
    • DG archive.
    • 29.
  • César Franck

    Les Eolides

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Willem van Otterloo.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • EMI.

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