Tom McKinney
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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 New Year New Music 鈥� our Radio 3 presenters recommend a piece of new music.
1130 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Idylle (Suite pastorale)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
- Mercury.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Dan莽a [Miudinho] (Bachiana Brasileira no.4)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.- Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras.
- Warner Classics.
- 204.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben (Cantata no.8)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Eternal Fire.
- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
January and February (The Year)
Performer: Lauma Skride.- Sony.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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John Ireland
Elegy (A Downland Suite)
Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.- 150 Years Of the John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band.
- CHANDOS.
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Pauline Viardot
The Stars (12 Poems of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev)
Singer: Laetitia Grimaldi. Performer: Ammiel Bushakevitz. Performer: Talia Erdal.- Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle 脡poque.
- BIS.
- 1501.
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Tarquinio Merula
Ciaccona
Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
- Virgin Classics.
- 14.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Three-fours - valse-suite Op.71 (Andante)
Performer: Monica Gaylord.- Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
- MUSIC & ARTS.
- 24.
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Anna Meredith
Spook
Performer: Tom Kerstens. Performer: Karen Hutt. Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.- Ignite: New Music for Guitar, Vol. 3.
- BGS Records.
- 101.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Konzertst眉ck in F minor, Op. 79
Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.- Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra.
- BIS.
- 301-305.
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Johann Christoph Bach
Es ist nun aus
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- J C Bach Welt, gute Nacht - Gardiner.
- SDG.
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Ruth Gipps
Pan and Apollo
Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.- 大象传媒 recording.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert de Nations, Jordi.
- Alia Vox.
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Henry Purcell
What power art thou (King Arthur Z.628)
Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Purcell - King Arthur.
- ERATO.
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Henry Litolff
Concerto symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Shura Cherkassky. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.- GUILD.
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Frederick Delius
Winter Landscape (North Country Sketches)
Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Delius: Brigg Fair etc: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Mackerras.
- Argo.
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Hubert Parry
When icicles hang by the wall (English Lyrics - set 2)
Singer: Robert Tear. Performer: Philip Ledger.- Decca.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Puppets and Actors (The Maid of Orleans)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Philips.
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William Byrd
Agnus Dei (Mass for 5 voices)
Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major Op.64 no 5 'Lark' (3rd & 4th mvts)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- Cavi-music.
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Tyshawn Sorey
Autoschediasms (2020)
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound.- Cantaloupe.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Chaconne (Dardanus)
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ARCHIV.
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Galina Grigorjeva
Prayer
Performer: Allar Kaasik. Choir: Estonian National Male Choir. Conductor: Mikk 脺leoja.- Timeless Light.
- BIS.
- 101.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic dances - series 1 Op.46 (no.8 in G minor)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- TELDEC.
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Simeon Walker
Shelter
Performer: Simeon Walker.- Simeon Walker Self-Released.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Paride ed Elena (Overture)
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- DG Archiv.
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Jean Sibelius
Humoresque in E Flat Major, Op.89 no.5
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Sibelius: The Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra.
- Warner Classics.
- 112.
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Arnold Bax
Mater ora filium
Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.- CHANDOS.
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