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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 alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

Fri 19 Aug 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Tielman Susato

    Mourisque

    Ensemble: タブラトゥーラ.
    • Tablatura Collection.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Le Voyage Magnifique, Schubert: Impromptus; Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major Op.74`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Baby Serenade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Essentials.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 301.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV 366 "Il Carbonelli"

    Performer: Julien Chauvin. Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge.
    • Vivaldi : Concerti per violino VIII "Il teatro".
    • naïve classique.
    • 16.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Celestial Bird

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.19 in F, K459 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No..18, K.456 & No.19, K.459.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.
  • Akin Euba

    3 Yoruba Songs Without Words

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia. Performer: Abdelkader Saadoun.
    • African Pianism.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 1001.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Casta diva (Norma)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Choir: International Chamber Vocalists. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Bellini: Norma: Cecilia Bartoli/Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Nino Rota

    La Strada - Ballet Suite

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Nino Rota - Musica E Sogno.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Morley

    Joyne hands à 6

    Ensemble: Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wiegenlied. "Schlafe mein Prinzchen"

    Performer: Semion Skigin. Singer: Dagmar Schellenberger.
    • Mozart for My Baby (International Version).
    • EMI.
    • 15.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Lullabye for Lucy for chorus [1982]

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Merry Doll (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.
  • Frederick Delius

    Lullaby for a Modern Baby

    Performer: Clare Howick. Performer: John Paul Ekins.
    • British Music for Violin & Piano.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Naxos.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating rhythm (Lady Be Good)

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

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