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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

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Max Richter Orchestra. Conductor: Lorenz Dangel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.5

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Christmas Carols and Motets.
    • Gimell.
    • 8.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Serenade for guitar and strings, Op 50

    Performer: Craig Ogden. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade Op.35 (The Young Prince and Princess)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming

    Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2 - American Nocturnes.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 17.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.3 "The Sunday Symphony" (Prayer)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quartet no.1 in C minor Op.51 no.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Zacharias. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Mozart : Piano Concertos 20 & 21.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.
  • Gustav Holst

    First Suite in E flat, Op. 28/1

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Symphonic Winds. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Telarc.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de Printemps

    Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Stringer.
    • Timpani.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St John Passion, BWV245: Mein Teurer Heiland

    Singer: Alex Ashworth. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: St. John Passion.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jonny Greenwood

    Phantom Thread (The Tailor of Fitzrovia)

    Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ames.
    • Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.
  • Jonny Greenwood

    Phantom Thread (For the Hungry Boy)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Nonesuch.
    • 18.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz. Performer: Cecil Aronowitz. Performer: Terence Weil. Performer: Adrian Beers. Performer: Gervase de Peyer. Performer: Keith Puddy. Performer: Peter Graeme. Performer: Sarah Barrington. Performer: William Waterhouse. Performer: Edgar Williams. Performer: James Buck. Performer: Neill Sanders. Orchestra: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Las Cuatro estaciones portenas (Invierno porteno)

    Performer: Tom谩s Cotik. Music Arranger: Leonid Desyatnikov. Orchestra: Martingale Ensemble. Conductor: Ken Selden.
    • Astor Piazzolla: Buenos Aires.
    • Naxos.

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