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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 alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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 this week Tom takes us through five essential guitar pieces.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 27 Dec 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Il salterello romano, Op 6 No 4

    Performer: Sylviane Deferne.
    • CACBC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Traditional English

    The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Music Arranger: Keith Roberts. Ensemble: King's Men, Cambridge.
    • Twelve Days of Christmas.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 114.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-5.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495

    Performer: David Pyatt. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • WARNER APEX.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Sans Day Carol

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge. Choir: Clare College Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • The original Carols from Clare.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 212.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    To Shorten Winter's Sadnesse

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.
  • Anthony Holborne

    As it fell on a holie eve - galliard for 5 instruments [1599 no.64]

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Overture di ballo

    Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 10.
  • Franz Liszt

    Die Hirten an der Krippe (Weihnachstbaum)

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt Christmas Tree - Via Crucis; Chorales.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • DECCA.
  • Paul McCartney

    Blackbird

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Hermeto Pascoal

    Quando as Aves se encontram

    Singer: Hermeto Pascoal.
    • Philips.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.433, Op.10 No.1.......for flute and orch: 3rd mvt; Presto

    Performer: Wissam Boustany.
    • Nimbus.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Sevilla

    Performer: Marcelo Kayath.
    • IMP.
  • Richard Alison

    Goe from my window - variations for broken consort

    Music Arranger: Thomas Morley. Ensemble: Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 16.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Nostalgic Piece

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1501.
  • Ludwig G枚ransson

    The Mandalorian

    Conductor: Pete Anthony.
    • Walt Disney Records.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.5 in F major, Op.76 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.
    • Dvorak The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Roderick Williams

    O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel

    Singer: Emma Walshe. Singer: Roderick Williams. Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • The Mystery of Christmas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 103.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13 'Path茅tique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8,15,27 & 30: Jonathan Biss.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Prelude & Alla Hornpipe (Water Music Suite in F, HWV.348)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Handel: Water Music, Music For The Royal Fireworks.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 001.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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