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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is organist and conductor Simon Preston. Presented by Tom McKinney.

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 Essential Performers 鈥� our final track this week from featured artist, the late organist and conductor Simon Preston.

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

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Fri 3 Jun 2022 09:00
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Music Played

  • William Walton

    A Queen's Fanfare

    Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite no.5 in C major [Musikalische Erg枚tzung, 1695]

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Gustav Holst

    Symphony in F, Op 8 'The Cotswolds' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C minor Op.18 no.4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • William Walton

    Coronation Te Deum

    Choir: Polyphony. Choir: Polyphony. Performer: James Vivian. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Ballade and Dance

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
    • NAIVE.

  • Clair Omar Musser

    Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • RCA.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 ( 4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Sony.

  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cyth猫re

    • Poulenc: Works for Piano Solo and Duo.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 22.

  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet arr. for string orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Dopo un'orrida procella (Griselda)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • DECCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Coronation March, Op. 65

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort.
    • An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Arthur Wood

    Barwick Green (theme from "The Archers")

    Orchestra: Sidney Torch & His Orchestra.
    • The Great British Experience.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Philip Lane

    Suite of Cotswold Folk-Dances

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • White Line.

  • George Butterworth

    Bredon Hill (Bredon Hill and other songs)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

  • Gustav Holst

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Cotswold Romance: The Men of Cotsall

    Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.81 in G major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • Haydn: Arie per un'amante.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.

  • Andr茅 Messager

    Solo de concours

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Frost and Friends.
    • BIS.
    • 008.

  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Vivace in D major, WK 190

    Performer: Lucile Boulanger.
    • ALPHA.

  • James MacMillan

    In splendoribus sanctorum

    Performer: Mark O'Keeffe. Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.
    • LINN.

  • Michiru Oshima

    Memories

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Courante (Lute Suite No 14 in F major)

    Performer: David Russell.
    • The Grandeur of the Baroque.
    • Telarc.
    • 17.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony No 1 in E flat, Op 1 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Stravinsky: The Complete Ballets & Symphonies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

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  • Fri 3 Jun 2022 09:00
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