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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 30 May 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • DG.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-down (Rodeo)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos CHSA5164.
    • Chandos.
    • 21.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture Burlesque, TWV55:B8 (Scaramouches, Harlequinade, Colombine, Pierrot, Mezzetin en Turc)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • CPO.
  • Thoinot Arbeau

    Branle de la Haye / Branle de guerre [Orchesographie]

    Ensemble: Florilegio Ensemble. Director: Marcello Serafini.
    • PAN CLASSICS.
  • Bechara El-Khoury

    Danse des aigles

    Orchestra: Orchestre Colonne. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Trio in G major Op.9`1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Boccherini.
    • Beethoven: String Trios, Op. 9 Nos. 1-3.
    • Genuin.
    • 104.
  • William Grant Still

    Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 901.
  • Gaspare Spontini

    Overture: La Vestale

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Bru Zane Records.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    La Catedral

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Dowland/Sor/Barrios/Ponce.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 010.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn - String Quartets Op.74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Peter Warlock

    Sleep

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: John Mark Ainsley.
    • HYPERION.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano FS.68

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Chamber Music for Horn.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Concertstuck D.345

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Byrd

    Ambitious Love

    Singer: Matthew White. Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques. Director: Amanda Keesmaat.
    • Music & Sweet Poetry Agree.
    • Analekta.
    • 13.
  • Feim Ibrahimi

    Tokate

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Libro primo d'intavolatura di chitarone: Toccata arpeggiata

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Intavolatura di chitarone.
    • BIS.
    • 601.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Fanfare, The Eagle Has Two Heads

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: John Iveson.
    • Festive Brass.
    • Marcophon.
    • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    Four Part-Songs, Op. 53: No. 4, Owls

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres: Part Songs of the British Isles.
    • Signum Records.
    • 12.
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Clarach

    • SOAR.
    • Bendigedig Recordings.
    • 1.
  • Rabih Abou-Khalil

    Bat Dance

    • ENJA RECORDS.
  • Ron Goodwin

    Where Eagles Dare (main theme)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic.
    • The Film Music of Ron Goodwin.
    • Chandos.
    • 022.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 34 & Serenade in F Major, Op. 31 (Liv.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Enrique Granados

    Valenciana [12 Danzas Españolas, Op. 37]

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Favourite Spanish Encores.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Valencia for string quartet

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Orange.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 2.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Bonbons Waltz Op.307

    Orchestra: Johann Strauss Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Rothstein.
    • By The Beautiful Blue Danube.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.
  • George Gershwin

    By Strauss

    Music Arranger: Nelson Riddle. Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra. Conductor: Nelson Riddle.
    • Verve.
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Choir of Girton College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Historic Brass of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Conductor: Gareth Wilson.
    • Toccata Classics.
  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse Op.40

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Children's Cello.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`7

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Cesar Cui

    Tarantella in G minor, Op 12

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd.
    • NAXOS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Tarantella)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

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