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Saturday - Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. including folk music and folk influenced classical music for Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend.

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2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Jan 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: George McIlwham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Maxwell Davies: Symphony No.6.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622, ii. Adagio

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • EMI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon (The House of Life)

    Performer: John Constable. Singer: Thomas S. Allen.
    • An Anthology of English Song: Various artists.
    • Novello.
    • 9.
  • Judith Weir

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: William Howard. Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • NMC.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    'O soave fanciulla' from Act 1 of 'La Boheme'

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Kristine Opolais. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Jonas Kaufmann: Nessun Dorma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Jon Lord

    Durham Concerto: Part I, Morning, II. Durham Awakes

    Performer: Matthew Barley. Performer: Kathryn Tickell. Performer: Jon Lord. Performer: Jon Lord. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Jon Lord: Durham Concerto.
    • AVIE.
    • 2.
  • William Byrd

    Emendemus in melius for 5 voices

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite No. 1 for Military Band Op. 28 No. 1

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • British Wind Band Classics.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • John Barry

    Out of Africa - Main Title

    Orchestra: MGM Studio Orchestra.
    • MCA Records.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Composer: Anthony Payne. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO Live.
  • LENNON/MCCARTNEY

    The Fool on the Hill

    Performer: John Williams.
    • CBS Masterworks.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Suite 脿 5 No 3 in C minor (Paven)

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Williams Lawes - Consort Sets in Five and Six Parts.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.
  • Percy Grainger

    Brigg Fair

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Robert Johnson. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise (Op.34 no.14)

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky: Cello & Piano Works: Mork, Thibaudet.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for keyboard no. 2 (BWV.826) in C minor; Sinfonia

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • J.S. Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for keyboard no. 2 (BWV.826) in C minor; Sinfonia

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • J.S. Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

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