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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.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Nov 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Baldassare Galuppi

    Piano Sonata No 9 in F Minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • AUDITE.
  • Pedro de Cristo

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Lu铆s Toscano.
    • Hyperion.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourr茅e fantasque

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 6.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.208

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
  • Ad Wammes

    Miroir for organ

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer.
    • Organ Party Volume 1.
    • Priory.
    • 2.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Music for strings, percussion and celesta Sz.106: 4th mvt; Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna M盲lkki.
    • Bart贸k: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Lukas Foss

    Composer's Holiday (3 American Pieces)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The American Album: Itzhak Perlman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major D.898 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Schubert Piano Trios 1&2.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Clarinet Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • WARNER.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Theodora: "To thee thou glorious son of worth"

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ERATO.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kerner Lieder, Op. 35: Stille Tr盲nen

    Performer: Michael Gees. Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien.
    • RCA.
  • Sally Beamish

    Gala Water (4th mvt)

    Performer: Robert Irving.
    • BIS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 47 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Canon 1 a 2 (cancrizans)

    Ensemble: Sonnerie.
    • Bach: Musical Offering.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 3.
  • William Hurlstone

    The Witch's Death Dance (The Magic Mirror)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Pietro Yon

    12 Divertimenti (Toccatina)

    Performer: Ian Tracey.
    • Ian Tracey - Organ Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Ernest Seitz

    The World is waiting for the Sunrise

    Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France. Featured Artist: St茅phane Grappelli.
    • Djangology.
    • RCA Bluebird.
    • 13.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata - 1683 no.8 in G major Z.797

    Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.
    • LINN.
  • Pierre de la Rue

    O salutaris hostia

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: James MacMillan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagete: Coda

    Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • 2L.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 2 in C major, H.XVI.7 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅 Suite no.2

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

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