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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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Music Played

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight (Arr. Mackay)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Elspeth Mackay. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Gaspard de la nuit (1st mvt. Ondine. Lent)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos.

  • Ernest Bloch

    In The Mountains (Dusk)

    Ensemble: Galatea Quartet.
    • Bloch: Landscapes - Works For String Quartet.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 9.

  • Ernest Bloch

    In The Mountains (Rustic Dance)

    Ensemble: Galatea Quartet.
    • Bloch: Landscapes - Works For String Quartet.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in A minor, Op 21 No 1

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in F Major, K. 580a

    Music Arranger: Philip Wilby. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Virtuoso: Music for Euphonium & Brass Band.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Jakub Hr暖拧a. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • My First Decade.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Kurt Weill

    September Song

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Performer: Paul Smith.
    • Verve.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major (6th mvt)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Sybille Mahni. Performer: Veronika Eberle. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Rachel Roberts. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Yasunori Kawahara.
    • Schubert: Octet in F Major, D. 803 / Widmann: Octet in F Major.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Nocturne arr Harris for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Music Arranger: Arthur Harris. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Frank Brieff.
    • Humoresque, Favourite Violin Encores: Stern/Columbia Symphony Orch/Brieff/Katims.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture, Op. 84

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Universal Music LLC.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan Op.59

    Performer: Bill Anderson. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major for 4 violins and cello RV.567 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Channel Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Gigue (Keyboard Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427)

    Performer: Colin Tilney.
    • Handel: Harpsichord Suites.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Sonata No.2 in F-Sharp Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fran莽ois-Fr茅d茅ric Guy.
    • Brahms: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 for Piano.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 3.

  • Florence Price

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

    Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • An American Rhapsody.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sequeira Costa. Orchestra: The Gulbenkian Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser.
    • R. Schumann: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • Marco-Polo.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • John Tavener: Song for Athene, Svyati.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

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