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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Mark Forrest

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3鈥檚 classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    L'id茅e fixe 鈥� Andante amoroso d'apr猫s une m茅lodie de Berlioz, S395

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt: The complete music for solo piano - Volume 5: Leslie Howard.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Katharine Emily Eggar

    Idyll

    Orchestra: Suffrage Sinfonia. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • The Lost Women of Music.
    • ABC Classics.

  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau Soir

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 018.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Ruud.
    • BIS.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Agnus Dei (Missa Salve intemerata)

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John's: Choir of St John's College, Cambr.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Quartet for strings in C minor, Op 51 No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Theme from The Piano)

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in C minor Op.30`2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7.
    • BIS.
    • 302.

  • Craig Armstrong

    Balcony Scene (Romeo + Juliet)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Capitol.

  • Helvi Leivisk盲

    Piano Trio (2nd mvmt)

    Performer: Annemarie Astrom. Performer: Ulla Lampela. Performer: Tiina Karakorpi.
    • ALBA.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings / Dvor谩k: Serenade For Strings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto (Slowly and expressively)

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

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

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