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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 Performers 鈥 this week we focus on American clarinettist Anthony McGill.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 31 Jan 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Farnham Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • British Light Overtures 2: RBS, Sutherland.
    • White Line.
  • Anon.

    Galliard and Allemande

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Marc Blitzstein

    I wish it so (Juno)

    Music Arranger: Eric Stern. Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Performer: Eric Stern.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Richard Johnson

    Wurlitzer March

    Performer: Arnold Loxam.
    • Valentine Music.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Pohadka [Fairy tales]

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: J芒ms Coleman.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.26 in E flat major K.184

    Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. Conductor: J茅r茅mie Rhorer.
    • Mozart: Symphonies 25, 26 & 29: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie/Rhorer.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation no.3 in D flat major

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • DG.
  • Fran莽ois Devienne

    Flute Concerto no.7 in E minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • WARNER.
  • William Alwyn

    Suite for oboe and harp

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Ieuan Jones.
    • William Alwyn: Chamber Works Vol.1: Haffner Wind Ensemble of London.
    • Chandos.
    • 5-7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlk枚nig D.328

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, HWV 288, 'Sonata 脿 5' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    La rose compl猫te; Dirait-on (Les chansons des roses)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Les Chansons Des Roses.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9-10.
  • John A. Glover-Kind

    I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

    Performer: Reginald Dixon.
    • The Magic Of Reginald Dixon.
    • Music For Pleasure.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Jarre

    Lara's Theme (Doctor Zhivago)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • SILVA SCREEN RECORDS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    War March of the Priests (Athalie, Op.74)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concert, Symphony no.4 "Italian": Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Larry Adler

    Genevieve Waltz

    Performer: Larry Adler. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Gamley.
    • The Genius of Larry Adler.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Louis James Lefebure-Wely

    Sortie in B flat major

    Performer: David Sanger.
    • Lefebure-Wely: Organ Music played by David Sanger.
    • Meridian.
    • 17.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie Op.24

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.
  • Isa铆as S谩vio

    Batacuda

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Latino: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite (Lullaby)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor Op.111 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • HYPERION.
  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.
  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Only In Sleep

    Performer: Rachel Ambrose Evans. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights and other Choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in E minor BWV.996 (Bourr茅e)

    Performer: Luigi Attademo.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Glass: Violin Concerto: Gidon Kremer.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

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  • Mon 31 Jan 2022 09:00

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