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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way, with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro in G flat major

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Soloists.
    • 滨苍诲茅厂别苍蝉.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.23`3)

    Choir: Holst Singers. Performer: Thelma Owen. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Britten: Choral Dances, Bliss Pastoral, Holst Rig Veda: Holst Singers & Orch/Dav.
    • Helios.
    • 2.
  • Fannie Charles Dillon

    Birds at dawn, Op 20 No 2

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 1: In Nature.
    • First Hand.
    • 8.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto Grosso in F Minor, Op. 1 No. 8 - VI. Pastorale. Largo andante

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Serenade in E major Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorak, Bartok, Wolf: Saito Kinen, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: The Brabant Ensemble. Conductor: Stephen Rice.
    • HYPERION.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata in B major, Op.46 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mary Ellen Haupert. Performer: Kirsten Whitson.
    • Centaur.
  • Arnold Bax

    Summer Music

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Best of British.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Dance (5 Fantasiestucke Op.5)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered.
    • Azica Records.
    • 9.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance Op.65

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough In Recital.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Pantalon et Colombine (Carnaval, Op 9)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 22.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Sanctus; Benedictus (Requiem)

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verdi: Messa Da Requiem. Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite arr Bush (Minuet; Rondo)

    Music Arranger: Geoffrey Bush. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Ireland: A Downland Suite etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 3-4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Malcolm Proud. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Elizabeth Wallfisch.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 13 in B-Flat Major, Op 130: IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro

    Ensemble: Dover Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3.
    • Cedille.
    • 308.
  • Dan Jones

    On Chesil Beach: Eternal Love; Into the woods; Walk in the meadows

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Original Soundtrack Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Moscow Cheryomushki Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Etude Romantique Op.132

    Performer: Johann Blanchard.
    • MDG.
  • Scott Joplin

    Stoptime Rag

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin. Ensemble: Southland Stingers.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.

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