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.
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Edward Elgar
The Little Bells (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)
Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
- Naxos.
- 9.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.9`2 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Artist Portrait: Il Giardino Armonico.
- Warner Classics.
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Clara Schumann
Scherzo no.2 in C minor Op.14
Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.- Romance.
- Decca.
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Alexander Borodin
String Quartet no.2 in D major (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.- Borodin: String quartets: The Lindsays.
- ASV.
- 007.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (Overture)
Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.- Mozart: Overtures, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Tafelmusik, Bruno Weil.
- Sony Classical.
- 8.
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Shruthi Rajasekar
Star of Rohini
Choir: Choir of Somerville College, Oxford. Conductor: Will Dawes.- Resonus Classics.
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Georges Bizet
Symphony in C major (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth.
- Mirare.
- 3.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos Suite)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.- Decca.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Mystery Sonata No 3 in B minor (The Birth of Jesus)
Ensemble: Cordaria.- Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas for Violin and Continuo.
- Signum Classics.
- 301-303.
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Edvard Grieg
Puck (Lyric pieces - book 10 Op.71)
Performer: Bal谩zs Szokolay.- Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Books 1-10.
- Naxos.
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Jennifer Higdon
Blue Cathedral
Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Spano.- Rainbow Body.
- TELARC.
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Andr茅 Cardinal Destouches
Chaconne from Les elements
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'OISEAU LYRE.
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Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Wiegenlied (2 Songs Op.91)
Singer: Sophie Rennert. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Hyperion.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Silken Ladder (Overture)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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RADIO 3 BREAKFAST CAROL COMPETITION: CAROL NO.6
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Maurice Walters
The Winter's Brightening
Performer: Richard Pearce. Music Arranger: Alexander L鈥橢strange. Music Arranger: Joanna Forbes. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
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Carl Nielsen
Oriental Festival March (Aladdin)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.- Nielsen: Gothenburg SO, Chung.
- BIS.
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Jean Japart
Nencio莽莽a mia
Ensemble: Medusa. Director: Patrizia Bovi.- Micrologus.
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Gra偶yna Bacewicz
Symphony no.3 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: 艁ukasz Borowicz.- Bacewicz: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 1.
- CPO.
- 103.
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Gustav Holst
Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.23`3)
Choir: Holst Singers. Performer: Thelma Owen. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.- Britten: Choral Dances, Bliss Pastoral, Holst Rig Veda: Holst Singers & Orch/Dav.
- Helios.
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Andr茅 Jolivet
L'Etoile (Pastorales de Noel)
Ensemble: Britten-Pears Ensemble.- Jolivet: Poemes pour l'Enfant, Suite Liturgique, etc..
- Decca (UMO).
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Francis Poulenc
Videntes stellam (4 Motets pour le temps de No毛l)
Choir: Cadenza. Director: Jenny Sumerling.- Voices of Joy: Cadenza.
- Cadenza.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Pole Star March
Ensemble: Wallace Collection.- NIMBUS : NI5936.
- NIMBUS.
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Kate Rusby
Underneath the Stars
Choir: VOCES8.- Decca.
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Akin Euba
L'ori oke ati petele (3 Yoruba Songs Without Words)
Performer: Rebeca Omordia.- African Pianism.
- SOMM Recordings.
- 1003.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 4 violins in E minor RV.550
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Marco Bianchi. Performer: Stefano Barneschi. Performer: Liana Mosca. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- What's next Vivaldi?.
- RSK Entertainment Limited.
- 14-17.
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Richard Strauss
Sonatina (Symphony) no.2 'Happy Workshop' (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Armonia Ensemble.- Richard Strauss - Wind Sonatas.
- Berlin Classics.
- 006.
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Arthur Sullivan
Strange adventure! (The Yeomen of the Guard)
Singer: Judith Howarth. Singer: Anne Collins. Singer: Kurt Streit. Singer: Stafford Dean. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen Of The Guard.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.103 'Drum Roll' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.- PHILIPS.
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Helena Munktell
Violin Sonata in E flat major Op.21 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Cecilia Zilliacus. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- db Productions.
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Johann Joseph Fux
Intrada in C major (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- Carus.
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Gerald Finzi
In terra pax Op.39
Singer: John Noble. Singer: Jane Manning. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- In Terra Pax: A Christmas Anthology.
- LYRITA.
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