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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s classical breakfast show to bring in Sunday morning with a selection of seasonal music - and birdsong made famous by a carol.

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Sun 22 Dec 202406:30
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Music Played

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the apple tree

    Choir: Belfast Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • Resonus.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Turtle Dove

    Singer: Gabriel Crouch. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Michael Head

    The Little Road to Bethlehem

    Choir: Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. Director: Benjamin Sheen.
    • The Living Fire.
    • CRD Records.

  • Anon.

    O Emmanuel

    Choir: Benedictine Nuns of St. Cecilia’s Abbey.
    • HERALD.

  • Träd

    In Dulce Jubilo

    Composer: Bugge Wesseltoft. Performer: Bugge Wesseltoft.
    • It's Snowing on My Piano.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.
    • 2.

  • Henry John Gauntlett

    Once in Royal David's City

    Composer: Thomas Hewitt Jones. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frohlocket ihr Volker auf Erden, Op. 79, No. 1

    Choir: Windsbacher Boys Choir. Conductor: Ludwig Böhme.
    • In Dulce Jubilo.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Trad.

    Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt

    Music Arranger: Carl Riedel. Choir: Windsbacher Knabenchor. Conductor: Ludwig Böhme.
    • In Dulce Jubilo.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Scene; Grandfather Dance)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of Carols (Procession, Wolcum Yole!, There Is No Rose)

    Performer: Sioned Williams. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Hyperion.

  • Boris Ord

    Adam Lay Ybounden

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 13.

  • Alec Roth

    Song of the Shepherds

    Composer: Richard Crashaw. Singer: Emilia Morton. Singer: Katy Hill. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Choir: The Sixteen.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 14.

  • Heinrich Schütz

    Magnificat SWV.468

    Ensemble: La Chapelle Rhénane. Director: Benoît Haller.
    • Magnificat d'Uppsala.
    • K617.
    • 10.

  • John Rutter

    Carol of the Magi

    Music Arranger: Luc Vertommen. Conductor: Nicholas Childs. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.
    • Brass at Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Charles Ives

    A Christmas Carol

    Music Arranger: Paul Echols. Choir: Chanticleer.
    • Reflections.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 6.

  • Philip Lane

    Overture on French Carols

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Reena Esmail

    We look for you (A Winter Breviary, No 1)

    Choir: St Martin's Voices. Conductor: Andrew Earis.
    • A Winter Breviary: Choral Works for Christmas.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.

  • John Gardner

    Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

    Choir: Royal Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Inglis.
    • Here Come The Classics, Christmas Classics, Vol. 2.
    • RPO.
    • 3.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Christmas is here

    Lyricist: Zeb Soanes. Choir: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Doughty.
    • Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    This is the record of John

    Composer: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Lloyd

    Love came down at Christmas

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.

  • Judith Weir

    Illuminare, Jerusalem

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Gian Carlo Menotti

    Amahl and the Night Visitors (Suite)

    Music Arranger: Frank Erickson. Ensemble: The United States Air Force Band. Conductor: Lowell Graham.
    • Christmas Brass.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 1.

  • Traditional English

    The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Music Arranger: Keith Roberts. Ensemble: King's Men, Cambridge.
    • Twelve Days of Christmas.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 114.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Romance

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.

  • Gustav Holst

    Lullay my Liking

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • A Choral Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 901.

  • Lorne Balfe

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Composer: Julian Nott. Composer: Jeremy Earnest. Composer: Mark Burton. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Masterworks.
    • 1.

  • Miguel Llobet Solés

    Catalan Folk Songs: El noi de la mare

    Performer: Eduardo Fernández.
    • 50 x Guitar.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 18.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Dec 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3