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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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 of Tom's top pieces written for his instrument, the guitar.

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

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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Rossini: Instrumental Music: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H.7b.1 (III. Allegro molto)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Genuin.

  • John Tavener

    Mother of God, Here I Stand (The Veil of the Temple)

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • LUX/Voces 8.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Hary Janos - suite Op.35a (The Viennese Clock)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Kod谩lyL H谩ry J谩nos Suite, etc..
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gelido in ogni vena (Farnace RV.711)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba Concerto in F minor

    Performer: John Fletcher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Maya Youssef

    The Sea

    Performer: Maya Youssef. Performer: Sebastian Flaig. Performer: Barney Morse-Brown.
    • Syrian Dreams.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Schubert: Impromptus: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.1 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    2 Serenades for violin and orchestra: no.2; Serenade pour la vie

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 - finale

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Derniere valse

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • Alpha.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Piano Quintet (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Barnab谩s Kelemen. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Alexander Lonquich.
    • ALPHA.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Syncopated Clock

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Leroy Anderson: Favourites: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Slatkin.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 16.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Le tic-toc-choc (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre No 18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Midnight (Cinderella Op.87)

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

  • Philip Glass

    I'm going to make a cake (The Hours)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.

  • Lionel Hampton

    Ring dem Bells

    Ensemble: Lionel Hampton Orchestra.
    • Bluebell.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Concierto argentino for piano and orchestra: 1st mvt; Allegretto cantabile

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Junto al Generalife

    Performer: Dale Kavanagh.
    • Rodrigo: Works for Guitar & Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 10 in G major, Op 96 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Alina Ibragimova/Cedric Tiberghien: Beethoven Violin Sonatas - 2.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 11.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • American Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

  • John Playford

    Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Rubicon RCD1017.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphonies Vol. 2.
    • ONYX.
    • 4.

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