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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

Fri 30 Dec 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Tambourin en rondeau

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen. Performer: Sebastien Dub茅. Music Arranger: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • SONY.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Blythe Teh Engstroem. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 no.4

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert: Impromptus: MAria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Herbert Howells

    Minuet 'Grace for a fresh egg'

    Performer: Laurence Perkins. Performer: Michael Hancock.
    • Voyage of a sea-god.
    • HYPERION.
    • 18.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus HWV.232 (opening chorus)

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • Alpha.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Sonata No 1 in C Minor, Op 32 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Regino S谩inz de la Maza

    Zapateado

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Erato.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pohjola's Daughter, Op 49

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Sibelius: Symphony Nos. 3, 5 & Pohjola's Daughter.
    • Alpha.
    • 7.
  • Emily Hall

    The End of the Ending (Version for Chamber Ensemble)

    Performer: H茅lo茂se Werner. Ensemble: The Hermes Experiment.
    • Delphian.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor Op.40 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Les Vents Fran莽ais - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    La Statira (Sinfonia in D)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Signum.
  • Robin Milford

    The Darkling Thrush Op.17

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Dutton Epoch.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov.
    • Alpha.
  • Louis Armstrong

    Big Butter And Egg Man

    • The Wonderful Duets.
    • Avid Entertainment.
    • 17.
  • Vernon Elliott

    Ivor The Engine - Suite (Main Theme)

    Performer: The Vernon Elliot Ensemble.
    • The Vernon Elliott Ensemble - Ivor The Engine & Pogles Wood.
    • Trunk Records.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 6.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Music Arranger: Tomita. Performer: Tomita.
    • RCA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 83 in G minor, 'The Hen' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Haydn: Paris Symphonies Nos. 82, 83 & 84: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV854 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Andreas Staier.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major RV.253 'La Tempesta di Mare'

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Bongani Ndodana-Breen

    Safika: 3 African Migrations, No 1

    Performer: Samantha Ege. Ensemble: Castle of Our Skins.
    • Lorelt.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No. 3 in C Major "Military": III. Scherzo. Allegro

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7.
    • CPO.
    • 103.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Musette tendre en rondeau

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen. Performer: Sebastien Dub茅. Music Arranger: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • SONY.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hymne 脿 la Nuit

    Music Arranger: Joseph Noyon. Choir: La Chapelle de Qu茅bec. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Atma.
  • C茅sar Franck

    String Quartet in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Zaide Quartet.
    • Franck - Chausson.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Wanderer D.649

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: James Newby.
    • I wonder as I Wander: Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and Britten.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces.
    • DG.
    • 3.

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  • Fri 30 Dec 2022 09:00

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