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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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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sun 9 Mar 202506:30
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Music Played

  • John Williams

    Hymn To The Fallen (Saving Private Ryan)

    Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Saving Private Ryan.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Anton Webern

    2 Pieces for cello and piano

    Performer: Claudio Bohórquez. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • On the shoulders of Giants.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Aoife Ní Bhriain

    Wings

    Composer: Catrin Finch.
    • Double You.
    • ARC Music Productions International Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in F major Op.6 No.2

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • Zig Zag Territoires.
    • 26.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Wiener Streichsextett.
    • Mozart: Kammermusik mit Klarinette.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka No.32 in C-sharp minor, Op.50 No.3

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata No.2 in G major, Op.13 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandra Soumm. Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Grieg: The Violin Sonatas, Op. 8, Op. 13 & Op. 45.
    • Claves Records.
    • 5.

  • John Sheppard

    Libera nos, salva nos

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Music for Compline.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty: Panorama

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (Gigue)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly, Op.97)

    Music Arranger: Lev Atovmian. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Warner.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace - XII. Benedictus

    Performer: Guy Johnson. Choir: National Youth Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • The Armed Man & Other Selected Works.
    • DECCA.

  • Mel Bonis

    Gai printemps, Op.11

    Performer: Laurent Martin.
    • Bonis: Le diamant noir (Danses).
    • Ligia.

  • Hubert Parry

    Symphony no.5 in B minor 'Symphonic fantasia' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No.10 in E-Flat Major, D. 87 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quartets D. 804 "Rosamunde", D. 703 & D. 87.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Schonste Nacht

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major, HWV 349: Overture; Alla Hornpipe

    Orchestra: Gottingen Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Cummings.
    • Handel: Water Music.
    • Accent.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.2 in A minor Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
    • Erato.
    • 103.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Story of the Kalendar Prince (Sheherazade)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Scheherazade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Mar 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3