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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

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Tibetan Winter (4 World Seasons)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Graham Bradshaw. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile (arr for solo cello and string trio)

    Performer: Jakob Spahn. Performer: Bavarian State Orchestra Academy.
    • Hanssler Classic.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    A Winter's Tale Op.18

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Stig Westerberg.
    • Swedish Society.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Agnus Dei (Requiem, Op 48)

    Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale. Ensemble: Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Louis. Ensemble: Ensemble Musique Oblique. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schafe k枚nnen sicher weiden (Cantata No. 208 BWV.208)

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen.
    • Bach: His Works.
    • UME.
    • 74.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rusalka, Op. 114: Song to the Moon

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Voice of the Violin.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Catriona McKay

    The Swan LK 243

    Music Arranger: Michael Baker. Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • Dances Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • James Bassi

    Quem pastores laudavere

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 112.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso (Op.1`8) in F minor; 6th movement; Pastoral - andante

    Performer: Thorsten Rosenbusch. Performer: Christian Trompler. Performer: Karl-Heinz Schr枚ter. Performer: Harald Winkler. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Performer: Erich Kr眉ger. Performer: Johanna Peters. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die No 3 in A minor

    Performer: Michel Legrand.
    • Eric Satie by Michel Legrand.
    • Erato.
    • 27.

  • Bob Chilcott

    The Shepherd's Carol

    Performer: Simon Bell. Performer: Frances Kelly. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major, K 452 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Amanda Lee Falkenberg

    Earth Moon Earthrise - The Overview (The Moons Symphony)

    Singer: Leo Jemison. Singer: Daniel Koek. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello suite No 6 in D major, BWV 1012 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Music Arranger: Fred Thomas. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Bach, JS: Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012: IV. Sarabande.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Lucy Walker

    The Christmas Life

    Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 83 in G minor, 'The Hen' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Haydn: Paris Symphonies Nos. 82, 83 & 84: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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