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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected]

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford, including BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, in Rainbow Promise, Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin celebrates the same sex marriage legislation which was passed in 2013. With a nod to Mendelssohn’s famous wedding march the piece is performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Novelettes Nos 1, 2 and 3

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Poulenc: Piano Works: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/BBC Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244: Erbarme dich (arranged for cello)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Ton Koopman. Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Music Arranger: Ton Koopman.
    • Essential Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Béla Bartók

    Six Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Béla Bartók – Works for Piano Solo.
    • Philips.
    • 17-22.

  • Michel Corrette

    Corrette: "Concerto comique" No. 25 In G Minor "Les sauvages et La Furstemberg"

    Performer: Hendrik Bouman. Director: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • French Baroque Concertos.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 7.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major K.136

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Chandos.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Le Champ Des Morts

    Performer: Accentus. Music Arranger: Franck Krawczyk. Choir: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • NAIVE.

  • Traditional Catalan

    Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Polonaise in B flat Major, D.580

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • DG.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto Op.40`2

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Peter Graeme. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Holst: Brook Green Suite, Lyric Movement, Fugal Concerto: ECO, Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite

    Ensemble: Katia Labèque. Ensemble: Marielle Labèque.
    • The Debussy Album.
    • Philips.
    • 4-7.

  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Mandolin Concerto in C

    Performer: Alon Sariel. Ensemble: Koln Academy. Director: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Theme and Variations

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Rainbow Promise

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Valse)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warners.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Musikalische Ergötzung (Suite No 2 in C minor: Sonata)

    Performer: Márta Fábián. Performer: Imre Kovacs Jr. Performer: Béla Sztankovits.
    • Baroque Music for Cimbalom: Marta Fabian.
    • White Label.
    • 1.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105 \"From My Life\": IV. Vivace

    • Dvorák: String Quartet No.12 \"American\" / Smetana: String Quartet No.1 \"From.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

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