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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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Last Sunday 06:30

Music Played

  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

    Symphony No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 104, "Westmorland"; II. Lento (Castnel Fell)

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Nabil Benabdeljalil

    Nocturne No. 4

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • SOMM.
  • George Gershwin

    Someone to Watch Over Me

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • CBS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Klavierstuck in A minor 'Fur Elise' and Bagatelle in C minor

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in C minor for wind octet, K 388 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude No. 16 (arrangement for two guitars)

    Performer: Roxane Elfasci. Performer: Baptiste Erard.
    • Cosmos Music.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A minor BWV 593 after Antonio Vivaldi

    Music Arranger: Joachim Sch盲fer. Ensemble: Dresden Bach Soloists.
    • Christophorus.
  • Traditional American

    Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair

    Singer: Nina Simone. Performer: Lisle Atkinson.
    • Jazz Masters 17: Nina Simone.
    • Verve.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestr盲ume (Notturno No 3 in A flat major)

    Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Requiem (Agnus Dei)

    Performer: Simon Standage. Performer: John Scott. Music Arranger: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Faur茅: Requiem & Other Sacred Music.
    • Collegium.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Cello Sonata in A minor, D. 821 "Arpeggione" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran.
    • Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Pace (arr. for brass ensemble)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players. Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Locatelli: 12 Concerti Grossi, op.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-4.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    All shall be well

    Performer: Richard May. Choir: Exultate Singers. Conductor: David Ogden.
    • NAXOS.
  • Anna Clyne

    Shorthand REDUX

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Ensemble: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Anna Clyne: SHORTHAND.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear My Prayer

    Performer: Silas Wollston. Singer: Andrea Cockerton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • CONIFER CLASSICS.

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