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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 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

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum mysterium

    Choir: Nordic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium.
    • Bayer Records.
    • 17.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor, H. 25

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    L'Histoire du Tango: Caf茅 1930

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Performer: Fran莽ois-Xavier Poizat.
    • Ravel: Pavane pour une infante d茅funte.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E Minor (Arr. for Wind Quintet): 2nd mvt Andante

    Composer: Florence Price. Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet (ensemble). Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet (ensemble).
    • An American Rhapsody.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 12.
  • William Henry Harris

    Bring Us, O Lord God

    Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Dominic Ellis-Peckham.
    • Harris: Bring Us, O Lord God.
    • NYCGB.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major, BWV.1048

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 204.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Barcarolle [Morning])

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite (Nocturne)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.
  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky

    Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 (2nd mov)

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Peter Limonov.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Schubert.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Anne Cawrse

    Imperfect Fourth (1st mvt)

    Performer: Aleksandr Tsiboulski. Performer: Cameron Hill. Performer: Helen Ayres. Performer: Martin Alexander. Performer: Ewen Bramble.
    • Advice to a Girl: Music by Anne Cawrse.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 6.

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