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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney 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

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor Op.20

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • CBS.

  • Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht

    Lute Concerto in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Miguel Rinc贸n. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Director: Zefira Valova.
    • Aparte.

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    Dusk (African Sketches)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • MSR CLASSICS.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Summa

    Singer: Jaanika Kuusik. Singer: Kadri Hunt. Singer: Mikk 脺leoja. Singer: Taniel Kirikal.
    • Part: The Deer's Cry.
    • ECM.
    • 12.

  • Teresa Carre帽o

    La Corbeille de Fleurs, Op.9

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione for oboe, cello and strings

    Performer: Julia Girdwood. Performer: Robert Truman. Ensemble: Consort of London. Conductor: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Church Bells Beyond the Stars

    Performer: John Kitchen.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria and Variations 1-10)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major Op. 67 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Poseidonkvartetten.
    • String Quartets by Grieg and Brahms.
    • CDklassisk.
    • 6.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Tu es Petrus

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Ashley Jackson. Music Arranger: Ashley Jackson.
    • Decca.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Casta diva... Ah! bello a me ritorna (Norma)

    Performer: Maria Goldschmidt. Performer: Daniel Pezzotti. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Ensemble: International Chamber Soloists. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Belohlavek.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.

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