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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 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.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 6 Jan 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas arr Parhamovsky

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Tam谩s Andras. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Thomas Carroll.
  • Haydn Wood

    The Horse Guards, Whitehall (London Landmarks Suite)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Three Studies op.104b; No.2 in F major - Allegro con moto

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • The Complete Solo Piano Music - 5.
    • HYPERION.
    • 19.
  • Peter Cornelius

    The Three Kings arr Atkins

    Music Arranger: Sir Ivor Atkins. Singer: Stephen Alder. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • Adeste Fideles: Christmas music from Westminster Cathedral.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mere l'Oye; Tableux 4, 5 & Apotheosis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in F major K.242 for 3 pianos and orchestra; 1st mvt Allegro

    Ensemble: MultiPiano Ensemble. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.
  • William Walton

    Passacaglia for solo cello

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • British Solo Cello Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 20.
  • Peter Cornelius

    The Three Kings arr Atkins

    Music Arranger: Ivor Atkins. Director: James O鈥橠onnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Singer: Stephen Alder.
    • Adeste Fideles: Christmas music from Westminster Cathedral.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in F minor H173 Wq57/6

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • CPE Bach: Sonatas & Rondos.
    • HYPERION.
    • 02.
  • Ina Boyle

    The Bringer of Dreams

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Paula Murrihy.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G major, HWV.384

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major, Op 21 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Dvorak: Piano Trios.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 4.
  • Albert Ket猫lbey

    In a Persian Market

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • Ketelbey: In a Monastery Garden etc.: John Lanchbery/Anatole Fistoulari.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Howard Skempton

    Well, well Cornelius

    Performer: John Tilbury.
    • Howard Skempton: Well, well, Cornelius: Tilbury.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Witches' Chorus (Macbeth)

    Choir: Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Richard Armstrong.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • EMI.
    • 006.
  • Frederick Delius

    Serenade (Hassan)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Vaughan Williams / Delius / Elgar / Warlock.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Audrey Hepburn

    Moon River

    • Cherry Red Records.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Thomas Larcher

    Symphony No.2 "Kenotaph", 3rd movement (scherzo)

    Performer: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Ondine.
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Messe Solemnelle - Credo

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus. Singer: Stefanie True.
    • AAM Records.
  • Harold Arlen

    The Wizard of Oz - musical film: Somewhere over the Rainbow

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: David Finck. Singer: Sylvia McNair.
    • Come Rain Or Come Shine.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 001.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Concerto for violin & orchestra in G minor (2nd movement)

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mike Hankinson.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto.
    • AVIE.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Sextet no. 1 in B flat major Op.18 for strings; 1st mvt Allegro ma non troppo

    Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 28 No 12

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.

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