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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

0915 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� another in our series of the best music for Advent.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Antiphon 'Let All The World' (Five Mystical Songs)

    Choir: Corydon Singers. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Hyperion.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata in D major for trumpet, strings and continuo

    Performer: David Blackadder. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The Purcell Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 8-10.

  • Han-Kun Sha

    Shepherd's Song

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 501.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Moscow, Cheryomushki: A Spin through Moscow

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Strings (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Director: Candida Thompson.
    • CHANNEL.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Blanca Variations

    • Time Traveler's Suite.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (Main Title; Darling; Finale)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Tafelmusik: Production 2 - Suite in D major, 2nd and 3rd Air

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.

  • John Philip Sousa

    Sabre and Spurs

    Orchestra: Eastman Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Frederic Fennell.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • William Walton

    Cello Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • HYPERION.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major, K309 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Marcel Lanquetuit

    Toccata in D major

    Performer: Gillian Weir.
    • PRIORY.

  • Jose Embala

    O Menino [A lullaby]

    Singer: Montserrat Figueras.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no.1 in D major Op.47

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Catriona McKay

    Little Impulse

    • GLIMSTER.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Comedians' Galop (The Comedians, Op 26)

    Performer: Kirill Kondrashin. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Dawn over the Moscow River (Khovanshchina)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Wiener Philharmoniker/Gergiev.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy

    Podmoskovnye vechera (Moscow Nights)

    Composer: Evgeny Stetsyuk. Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Hvorostovsky, D.: Russian Songs (Moscow Nights).
    • Delos.
    • 201.

  • Trad.

    Kamarinskaya

    Orchestra: Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. Conductor: Vitaly Gnutov.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in E flat major, H.15.10

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.

  • John Rutter

    Hymn to the Creator of Light

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony in A major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li猫ge. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Fugue in E minor: Allegro

    Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • CHANNEL.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.

  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Etude in A major

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • SONY.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ah Perfido!: 'Per pieta, non dirmi addio!'

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Muhai Tang.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto no.1 in D major Op.19 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PENTATONE.

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