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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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

Tue 22 Nov 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Studies, Op.40 (Prelude)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Kapustin: Piano music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Prelude; Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Water Music & Fireworks.
    • Glossa.
    • 10-11.
  • Amy Beach

    Invocation Op.55

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Schumann, Smyth, Beach.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Guitar Concerto Op.67 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 100 Best Guitar Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 601.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' Op.66

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonata etc: Muller-Schott/Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sadko Op.5

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Discover Rimsky-Korsakov.
    • Basilica Music.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich bin deine, (Cantata BWV.213)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: James Taylor. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: J枚rg Widmann.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor "Scottish" & The Hebrides - J枚rg Widmann:.
    • Orfeo.
    • 5.
  • James Lee III

    Alas, my identity (Clarinet Quintet)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • American Stories.
    • Cedille.
    • 104.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Grieg/Nielsen: Peer Gynt/Aladdin: San Francisco Symphony/Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • William Walton

    A Wartime Sketchbook (Prologue)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Non, piu di fiori (La Clemenza di Tito)

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • Mozart : Opera Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sir猫nes (Nocturnes)

    Choir: Women's Voices of the Collegium Musicum Amstelodamense. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Asturias (Suite espa帽ola)

    Performer: Miguel Baselga.
    • Alb茅niz: The Complete Piano Music.
    • BIS.
    • 505.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in F major RV.433, Op.10`1 'La Tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Alpha.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Est' pustynnyi kraj (Ruslan and Lyudmila)

    Lyricist: Valerian Shirkin. Lyricist: Alexander Pushkin. Singer: Yuri Marusin. Ensemble: Mariinsky Opera Company.
    • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Richard Rodgers

    The Song of the High Seas (Victory at Sea)

    Orchestra: Ron Goodwin and His Concert Orchestra.
    • Legend Of The Glass Mountain/Adventure.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    Where corals lie (Sea Pictures Op.37)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/LSO/Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.
    • Naxos.
  • Fredrik Sj枚lin

    Shore

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 2.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (La Clemenza di Tito)

    Librettist: Pietro Metastasio. Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Rivales.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 04.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story Suite

    Music Arranger: Vincent Barras. Music Arranger: Vincent Th茅venaz. Performer: Vincent Barras. Performer: Vincent Th茅venaz.
    • Contrastes.
    • Klarthe.
    • 3.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Daniele Rosina.
    • Labyrinths.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (A Ball)

    Orchestra: Anima Eterna Brugge. Director: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Le Carnaval Romain.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    24 Preludes Op.28 (no.10 in C sharp minor)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 10.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro American' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 12.

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