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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 – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

2 hours

Last on

Tue 16 Aug 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Nacio Herb Brown

    Doll Dance

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B minor RV.387

    Performer: Julien Chauvin. Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge.
    • NAIVE.
  • Paul Reade

    Exotica (Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the morning

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Songs of Ned Rorem.
    • Erato.
    • 03.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 303.
  • Kikuko Kanai

    Maidens Under the Moon (Ryukyu Dances)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Giovanni Croce

    In spiritu humilitatis for 8 voices

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew themes, arr for orchestra, Op 34b

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur Z.628 (Act 5 Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • WINGED LION.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.25 in G major Op.79 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • DEUX ELLES.
  • Herbert Murrill

    Come Away, Death (2 Songs from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.
  • James McMillan

    Memento

    Ensemble: Emperor Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Morgendlich leuchtend (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • DECCA.
  • Arnold Bax

    Symphony no.4 in E major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bax: Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation no.3

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • ORCHID.
  • Trad.

    Early One Morning

    Music Arranger: Ben Parry. Choir: Royal Holloway Choir. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Hotel (Banalites)

    Singer: Régine Crespin. Performer: John Wustman.
    • Decca.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris (conclusion)

    Performer: André Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier: Suite (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Strauss.
    • DG.
    • 9.

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