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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

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Music Played

  • Leopold Mozart

    Sinfonia da caccia in G major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hermann Baumann. Performer: Radovan Vlatkovi膰. Performer: Timothy Brown. Performer: Nicholas Hill. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Philips.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288, Act III Scene 2 (Excerpts): Danse Bacchanale

    Conductor: Jun M盲rkl. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Dances & Ballet Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 123.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.5 in D major K.175 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • BIS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, Op.70

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings / Dvor谩k: Serenade For Strings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chanson d'Amour.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 29.

  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Intemerata Dei Mater

    Orchestrator: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • An Evening with Leopold Stokowski.
    • Glossa.
    • 18.

  • Dario Castello

    Sonata - 1629 no. 6

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM RECORDINGS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    V'adore pupile (Julius Caesar)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.
    • Handel's Unsung Heroes.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 405.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young person's guide to the orchestra (Op.34) (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: LSO.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hole in the Wall [Hornpipe] (Abdelazer)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)

    Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 102.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.

  • Claude Debussy

    La danse de Puck (Preludes Bk 1)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Debussy: Preludes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)

    Performer: Richard Suart. Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • That's Entertainment.

  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Ophelia's song

    Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Stone Records.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Mandolin Dance (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Berliner Philharmoniker, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op 53: IX. & X.

    • Nikolai Kapustin - Piano Music.
    • Hyperion Records.
    • 16.

  • Richard Strauss

    Allerseelen (8 Lieder aus Letzte Bl盲tter Op.10)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs, Diana Damrau/Christian Thielemann.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Josef Lanner

    Die Mozartisten - waltz Op.196

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • New Years Concert 2006.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet no.2 in C minor Op.115 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Faur茅 Complete chamber music for strings.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 506.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Jubilate Deo

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Ensemble: Nuova Musica. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D Major, TWV.54:D3

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1 - 4.

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