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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

Wed 15 Feb 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. Conductor: Michael Nyman.
    • The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001.
    • Venture.
    • 2.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    La Nuit et l'Amour (Ludus pro Patria)

    Music Arranger: Rapha毛l Pidoux. Ensemble: Cello8. Director: Rapha毛l Pidoux.
    • Ode 脿 la nuit.
    • MIRARE.
    • 02.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Alpha.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Howard Skempton

    More sweet than my refrain

    Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • CANTALOUPE.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Lancer-Quadrille (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ana-Marija Markovina.
    • Bruckner: Piano Works.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 1503.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Glagolitic Mass (Varhany solo & Intrada)

    Performer: Jan Hora. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek: Hospodine, Glagolitic Mass, Diary of One Who Disappeared.
    • Praga Digitals.
    • 130.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Wind serenade in D minor Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak: Blaserserenaden.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet in E Flat Major Op.81b (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wiener Kammerensemble.
    • Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 & Sextet, Op. 81b.
    • Denon.
    • 9.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Cole Porter

    The Tale of The Oyster (Fifty million Frenchmen)

    Singer: Kay McClelland. Orchestra: Orchestra New England. Conductor: Evans Haile.
    • Fifty Million Frenchmen.
    • New World Records.
    • 19.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

    Performer: Pierre G茅nisson. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
    • Swing, a Benny Goodman Story.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 5-7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Pamela Frank. Performer: Rebecca Young. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata:Ax/Frank/Ma/Meyer/Bonney.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Judith Weir

    Love Bade Me Welcome

    Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.
    • Choral Music / Judith Weir.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 017.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long Day Closes

    Music Arranger: Philip Lawson. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Luigi Denza

    Funiculi - Funicula

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Diabolicus. Conductor: Dietrich Henschel.
    • Ambroisie.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Orchestra: I Musici de Montr茅al. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de Montr茅al.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Souvenirs de Bayreuth

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • ALPHA.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Music Arranger: Timothy Walker. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • An Orkney Wedding.
    • LINN.
    • 8.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A major Op.20 No.6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV.232 (Quoniam; Cum sancto Spiritu)

    Singer: Neal Davies. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Mass in B minor.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11-12.
  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 204.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourree fantasque

    Performer: C茅cile Ousset.
    • C茅cile Ousset: The Recordings For Decca France.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A minor Kk.54

    Performer: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major Kk.251

    Music Arranger: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad. Performer: S茅rgio Assad.
    • Nonesuch.

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