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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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum mysterium

    Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium.
    • Bayer Records.
    • 17.
  • Joan Trimble

    The Pool among the Rushes

    Performer: John Finucane. Performer: Elisaveta Blumina.
    • Irish Holidays.
    • Genuin.
    • 301.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    String Quartet No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Performer: Iris Juda. Performer: Douglas Paterson. Performer: Lionel Handy. Ensemble: Hanson String Quartet.
    • Elizabeth Maconchy: Hanson String Quartet: Peter Hanson, Iris Juda....
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 3.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 14 in G Major, H. 58

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frederick Delius

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

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Director: Diego Fasolis.
    • Erato.
  • Jasper Dommett

    Night Music (final section)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tommy Andersson.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 2.
  • John Weldon

    The Judgment of Paris: Sonata; Canon a 4

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Julian Perkins.
    • The Judgment of Paris.
    • AAM RECORDINGS.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.27 for piano: no.2 in D flat major

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • William Walton

    Death of Falstaff & Touch her soft lips and part (Henry V)

    Orchestra: Guildhall String Ensemble. Director: Robert Salter.
    • English Music for Strings.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op.44 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Joan Enric Lluna. Performer: Naomi Butterworth.
    • ѿý Music.
  • William Byrd

    Nunc dimittis servum tuum

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Tallis/Byrd/Sheppard: Music for Compline: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.
  • Jules Massenet

    Pourquoi me reveiller (Werther)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Jonas Kaufmann - Romantic Arias.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bk.1)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony in E minor, Op.32 “Gaelic”: II. A la siciliana

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.559139.
    • 6.
  • Traditional Folk

    Murphy’s Hornpipe

    Ensemble: Danú.
    • The Pearl Album.
    • BANDCAMP.
    • BANDCAMP.
    • 11.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Beethoven and Berwald: Septets.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Paul Smith

    Magnificat

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Revolutions.
    • VOCES8 RECORDS.
  • Eleonora d’Este

    Sicut lilium inter spinas

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • More Love.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin concerto in E major, RV.271 "L'Amoroso" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Vivaldi, Concertos for the Emperor.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.21 in C major K.467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Mar 2025 06:30