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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� the last in this week's series of essential guitar pieces.

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

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Music Played

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Canzona (La Lusignuola) a 4 [Pelplin Tablature, c.1620-40]

    Ensemble: Sirena Recorder Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat Op.40 (Finale)

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 6.

  • Oliver Knussen

    Flourish with Fireworks, Op.22

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • DG.

  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella S.141`3 [after Paganini]

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 (vers. for chamber orchestra, 1st mvt)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.

  • Jessie Montgomery

    Strum

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa Faisant Regretz (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Philips.
    • Gimell.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no.1

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • ALPHA.

  • Trad.

    The Old Year now away is fled

    Singer: Evelyn Tubb. Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Christmas Carols.
    • EMI.

  • Judith Weir

    Written on terrestrial things (The Voice of Desire)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Susan Bickley.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Trio Sonata in A major BuxWV 263, Op 2 No 5

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • ALPHA.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Celebration for Orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Traditional English

    Here we come a-wassailing

    Ensemble: The Watersons.
    • TOPIC.

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    脡tincelles (8 Morceaux caracteristiques, Op 36)

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Vladimir Horowitz The Indespensable.
    • BMG Classics.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, Op 70

    Performer: Ella van Poucke. Performer: Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Hubert Parry

    Never weather beaten sail (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.

  • Fernando Sor

    Introduction and Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op 9

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • RCA.

  • Robin Milford

    The Darkling Thrush Op.17

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Claude Debussy

    L'Isle joyeuse

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter Meditation (after the Largo from Vivaldi's 'Winter', RV 297)

    Music Arranger: Vivan Bhatti. Music Arranger: Ketan Bhatti. Performer: Eldbj酶rg Hemsing. Ensemble: Hestia String Quartet.
    • Sony.

  • Anonymous (17th-century Icelandic)

    Jesu, min Morgunstjarna (Jesus, my morning star)

    Music Arranger: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Arve Henriksen. Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.52:G3

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Sabine Fehlandt. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in D major Op.71`2 for strings (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.
    • String Quartets.
    • OEHMS CLASSICS.
    • 2.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14: 2nd movement; Un Bal (Valse) (Allegro non troppo)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Recordings.

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