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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 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 27 Dec 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    "Trumpet" Overture Op.101 in C major

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Canzona (La Lusignuola) a 4 [Pelplin Tablature, c.1620-40]

    Ensemble: Sirena Recorder Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Barcarolle Op.108

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • NAXOS.
  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Landscape - interlude [rev.1965]

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrzej Panufnik.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending for 6 voices [from The triumphs.......]

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen Op.20

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in C major, Op 51 No 1

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Fur Elise: Louis Lortie.
    • Chandos.
    • 25.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinatin' Rhythm

    Performer: Mark O鈥機onnor. Ensemble: Shelly Berg Trio. Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Gershwin Reimagined.
    • Decca.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Impromptu in A flat major, Op.29

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Olivia Chaney

    Roman Holiday

    Music Arranger: Marianne Schofield. Ensemble: The Hermes Experiment.
    • Song.
    • Delphian.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.1`9

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Locatelli: Concerti Grossi, Op. 1.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 19-23.
  • Manos Hadjidakis

    Paper Moon

    Music Arranger: Orestis Kalampalikis. Performer: Elena Papandreou.
    • Paper Moon: Songs by Hadjidakis.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.51 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Albion Quartet.
    • Dvor虒谩k: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 10.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in A major BWV.888 (The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • William Alwyn

    Winter Landscape (Winter Poems)

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • SOMM.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness; Suffolk Morris (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevi膷ius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.
  • Percy Grainger

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Moghul

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Edward Elgar

    Carissima

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Elgar: The longed for light: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra/John Wilson.
    • Somm.
    • 5.
  • Anonymous

    El cant dels ocells

    Performer: Pedro Memelsdorff. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Jordi Savall.
    • ASTREE AUVIDIS.
  • Spencer Williams

    Basin Street Blues

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 16.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major Kk.427

    Performer: Federico Colli.
    • Chandos.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier (Act 3 Waltz sequence)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • R.Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes, Burleske: Thibaudet/Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 27 Dec 2022 09:00

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