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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 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.

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

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 7 Dec 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • EMI.
  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • ´¡±Ê´¡¸é°ÕÉ.
  • Joseph Jongen

    13 Preludes Op.69 (no.13 Airs de fête)

    Performer: Ivan Ilić.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, A Hero's Song: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Nelsons.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 3.
  • Joanna Forbes

    Advent 'o' Carol

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • In Winter's House: Christmas with Tenebrae.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Spanish Dances (Playera)

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.2 'Song of a new race' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10

    Music Arranger: Howard Cable. Ensemble: Canadian Brass. Conductor: Elmer Iseler.
    • Gabrieli for Brass.
    • Philips.
    • 19.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite no.1 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • Bizet: L'arlesienne, Carmen suites: Minkowski.
    • Naive.
    • 8.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Cabaret Songs (Gigerlette)

    Singer: Alice Lackner. Performer: Imke Lichtwark.
    • Ernsthaft?!: Witz und Wahn in Liedern von Zemlinsky, Schönberg und Daigger.
    • Genuin.
    • 14.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concertino in E flat major Op.26

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • EMI.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Sonata-Fantaisie in G sharp minor

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • William Byrd

    Laudate pueri Dominum

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Thomas Tallis and William Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575.
    • Obsidian.
    • 17.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Symphony no.4 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří BÄ›lohlávek.
    • ONYX.
    • 12.
  • Anon.

    Hanacpachap cussicuinin

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    America (West Side Story)

    Singer: Rita Moreno. Singer: George Chakiris. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • CBS.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Bürger als Edelmann Op.60 (Musical Conversation)

    Singer: Christa Mayer. Singer: Bodil Arnesen. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor BWV.1052 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • SOUND CIRCUS.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Invocación y danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos Aranjuez.
    • DG.
    • 6.
  • John Dowland

    Semper Dowland semper dolens

    Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols.
    • Naxos.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.
    • Elatus.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Dénes Várjon.
    • Schumann: Music for cello & piano: Steven Isserlis/Denes Varjon.
    • Hyperion.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Festival Overture Op.52

    Ensemble: Swedish Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.

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  • Wed 7 Dec 2022 09:00

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