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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

Mon 5 Dec 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March for a Spartakiade (4 Marches Op.69)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Russian Wind Band Classics: RNCM Wind Orchestra / Rundell.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major AV.132 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Strauss: Horn Concertos: Britten Sinfonia/Cleobury.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas (When I am laid in earth & With drooping wings)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le Matin d'un jour de fete (Iberia)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Iberia.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Pastorale des cochons roses

    Singer: Sophie Karth盲user. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • Le Bal des animaux.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 132.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor, Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Haydn: String Quartets: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.3 in C major Op.52 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K.361 'Gran Partita' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Maurice Bourgue Wind Ensemble.
    • Pierre Verany.
  • John Adams

    Son of Chamber Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Alarm Will Sound. Conductor: Alan Pierson.
    • Splitting Adams.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sta nell'Ircana (Alcina)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture 'Leonore' no.3, Op.72b

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr 镁煤 oss himnum 谩 [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: H枚r冒ur 脕skelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto for trumpet, 2 oboes and strings in D major

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Falla: Three Cornered Hat: Chicago SO, Reiner.
    • RCA.
    • 15.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

    Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Choir: Philharmonic Chorus of Teatro Regio, Turin. Orchestra: RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon.
    • Elina Garanca - Habanera: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai: Karel Mark Ch.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Paco de Luc铆a

    La Tumbona

    Performer: Paco de Luc铆a.
    • Solo Quiero Caminar.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Befana [Epiphany] (Feste Romane)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Respighi: Pines of Rome; Fountains of Rome.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Primavera Portena

    Ensemble: Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto.
    • Nascente.
  • John Dowland

    Forlorn Hope Fancy

    Music Arranger: Joanna MacGregor. Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Live in Buenos Aires.
    • SoundCircus.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben (Cantata no.8)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Eternal Fire.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 14.
  • Franz Berwald

    Septet in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Donna Agrell. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Marc Destrub茅. Performer: Albert Br眉ggen. Performer: Robert Franenberg. Performer: Yoshiko Morita.
    • A Bassoon in Stockholm....
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No.3, Op.27 'Sinfonia Espansiva' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Anu Komsi. Singer: Karl-Magnus Fredriksson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BIS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in C major Kk.487

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Richard Strauss

    Festmusik der Stadt Wien

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

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