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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney with music for your Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Tom McKinney with perfectly paced music to start the day - and for anyone who might be up and about mixing and steaming their Christmas puddings on today's 'Stir-Up Sunday'...

To get in touch with Tom, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

And to listen on most smart speakers, just say "Ask 大象传媒 Sounds to play Breakfast."

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise Op.34 no.14

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27, etc.: BFO, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    搁锚惫别谤颈别

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Noriko Ogawa - Debussy Piano Music, Volume 5.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Kacena divoka [The wild duck]

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • ALPHA.
  • Max Bruch

    Adagio Appassionato

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chlo毛: London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann.
    • Warner.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Alpha.
  • Florence Price

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (5 Folksongs in Counterpoint)

    Performer: Apollo Chamber Ensemble.
    • Navona Records.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight Sonata

    Performer: Richard Goode.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalene

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Sonate Champetre

    Ensemble: Tailleferre Ensemble.
    • There are Things to be Said.
    • Ulysses Arts.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (A Ball)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Paray.
    • Mercury.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No. 3, "The Sunday Symphony" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. John Passion (Sleep well, and rest in God's safe-keeping)

    Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Ensemble: Bach Camerata. Conductor: David Temple.
    • Bach: St. John Passion.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 47.
  • Gustav Holst

    Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)

    Music Arranger: Peter D枚rpinghaus. Ensemble: Salaputia Brass.
    • Roots.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 202.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise, Op 83

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ernest Irving

    Whisky Galore! (Boarding the Stricken Freigher and The Moral of it All)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • The Ladykillers.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 7.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 "From the New World" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Dvo艡谩k:Symphony No. 9, From the New world - Sibelius: Finlandia.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 202.

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