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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 2 Feb 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Whitacre: Cloudburst & other choral works: Polyphony, Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Philip Glass

    Les Enfants Terribles: Suite - 3. The Somnambulist

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • DG.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    String Quartet in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet. Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.
    • Caprice.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Limpid Stream, Op.39 (Act 1, Waltz)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Clear and gentle stream (7 Part Songs, Op.17)

    Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G Minor, Z. 730

    Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Les Violons du Roy: Encore!.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite No.1 for small orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Judith Ward

    Mass for St Mark (Kyrie and Gloria)

    Performer: Simon Hogan. Choir: Siglo de Oro. Conductor: Patrick Allies.
    • Wisdom & Strength: Contemporary Sacred Choral Music.
    • Delphian.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`7

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • LINN.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K545 'Facile'; I. Allegro

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.

  • Simon Dobson

    SHIFT (2nd mvt. On solitude and longing)

    Performer: Peter Moore. Performer: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • Shift.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Schubert: String Quintet In C Major, D.956: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Made in Austria (SET).
    • Universal Music GmbH.
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 83 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Brahms - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mit Fried und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin, BWV 125 (Chorale fantasia)

    Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach: Cantatas for Marian Feasts.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 7.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/BBC Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Symphonie concertante in A major Op.9`2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yury Revich. Performer: Libor Ježek. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Michael Halász.
    • Saint-Georges: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Richard Strauss

    An Alpine Symphony (Sunset, Conclusion, Night)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Eine Alpensinfonie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Music Arranger: Antoine Forqueray.
    • Kreisler: Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2 (Arr. Fougeray for Violin and Gui.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • LONDON.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Feb 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3