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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 12 Jan 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Calm and settled glow (Halo)

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo, Music for Piano.
    • NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
    • 19.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    String Quartet in A minor (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Classical Chillout.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Ubi caritas et amor

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Lux aeterna & other choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Toccata all'Elevazione In F Major, Op. 1, No. 12 "Adagio"

    Performer: Sally Maer. Performer: Alexandre Oguey. Orchestra: Sinfonia Australis. Conductor: William Motzing.
    • Swoon: The Ultimate Collection – Selected Highlights.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 12.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Granada (Suite Espagnola)

    Performer: Nicola Hall.
    • Virtuoso Guitar Transcriptions.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Agathe Backer-Grondahl

    Aftnen er stille (The Evening is Quiet)

    Choir: Edvard Grieg Kor. Singer: Hilde Veslemoy Hagen. Singer: Orjan Hartveit. Conductor: Paul Robinson.
    • Edvard Grieg Kor Sings Grieg.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ilya Grubert. Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Helen Leach

    Diary of the Bee (1. Bluebell and 2. Thistle)

    Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.
    • Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach.
    • Divine Art.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich, mein Gott (St Matthew Passion, BWV. 244)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: François Leleux. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Radoslaw Szulc.
    • Lisa Batiashvili: Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Samuel Barber

    String Quartet in B minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Barber & Ives: String Quartets.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • DECCA.

  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation on Bach's first prelude, 'Ave Maria'

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance" (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 15 & 19 "Dissonances", Divertimento K. 138.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

Broadcast

  • Sun 12 Jan 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3