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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 [email protected]

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Sun 29 Dec 202406:30
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 20 in D major, K 499, 'Hoffmeister' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • EMI.

  • Peter Warlock

    Call for the Robin Redbreast (Dirges of John Webster, No. 2)

    Choir: The Carice Singers. Conductor: George Parris.
    • Warlock: Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Nocturne in A flat major

    Performer: Stephen Coombs.
    • Alexander Scriabin: The Early Scriabin: Stephen Coombs.
    • Helios.
    • 8.

  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto (Slowly and expressively)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne in E flat major

    Composer: Maria Theresia von Paradis. Performer: Jian Wang. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation in D flat major, S.172 no.3

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Frederick Delius

    Winter Landscape (North Country Sketches)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Delius: Brigg Fair etc: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Mackerras.
    • Argo.
    • 5.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No 1 (Afro-American) - 2nd mvt

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata Pian e Forte à 8

    Ensemble: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Sacred Brass.
    • Lso Live.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 7.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Stefano Bollani. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto: Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in A major Op.3`12

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • HYPERION.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • WARNER.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No. 1 in G major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 19.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Dec 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3