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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, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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 Jessye Norman is our artist in focus.

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

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Sevillana (Don C茅sar de Bazan)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Massenet: Fantaisie etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Variations [after Vladimir Horowitz]

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Piano Transcriptions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Paul Schoenfield

    Dog Heaven (Four Parables)

    Performer: Jeffrey Kahane. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Schoenfield: Four Parables, Vaudeville, New World Symphony, Nelson.
    • Argo.

  • David Popper

    Elfentanz Op.39 for cello and piano

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Pierre-Yves Hodique.
    • Play - Works for Cello and Piano.
    • ERATO.
    • 13.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalila-Symphonie (Final)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Performer: Harada Takashi. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in F major, HWV 427

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Trio in A minor Op.150 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Resonus.

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia 鈥� Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.8 in D major 'Prague'[ (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • 100 Meisterwerke von Mozart.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Introduction and tarantelle Op.43

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert Macdonald.
    • SONY.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Choro no.1

    Performer: Turibio Santos.
    • Villa-Lobos: Choros.
    • Le Chant du Monde.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    Beata viscera

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.

  • William Walton

    Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Elves' dance (Lyric pieces - book 1 Op.12)

    Performer: Florian Henschel.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Digitally Remastered).
    • EMG Classical.
    • 4.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    La Belle Dame Sans Merci

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • The English Songbook.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor Op.85 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Elgar, Cello Concerto; Carter; Bruch.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.

  • Louis Vierne

    Pieces de fantaisie - suite no.4 Op.55 (Naiades)

    Performer: Ben van Oosten.
    • MDG.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Lost Lady Found

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck Lieder

    Orchestrator: Felix Mottl. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder; Tristan & Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 3-7.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Linn.

  • Johannes Brahms

    7 Fantasies Op.116 (no.4; Intermezzo in E major)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'African-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Naxos.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    6 melodies (Allegro molto quasi Presto)

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.5 in D minor Op.47 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • TELARC.

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