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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 – 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

Fri 9 Jun 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major BWV.1050 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 6.
  • Clara Schumann

    Gondoliera

    Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.
    • EBS RECORDS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.86 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Haydn: Stabat Mater, Symphonies Parisiennes Nos. 84 & 86.
    • ´¡±è²¹°ù³Ùé.
    • 211.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings Op.6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Suk: Serenade fro Stings, Martinu: Sinfonietta Giocosa.
    • Conifer.
  • Camille Pépin

    Indra

    Performer: Raphaëlle Moreau. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Camille Pépin: Chamber Music.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 120.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni.
    • Il Tenore.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F Minor (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Clarinet Connection.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Nathaniel Dett

    Mammy (Magnolia Suite)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Terje Tønnesen.
    • SIMAX.
  • William Byrd

    The Barley Breake

    • Sophie Yates plays English Virginals Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 29 in A major, K.201 (3rd mvmt, Menuetto and Trio)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart for a Winter's Night.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 454.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Cantique

    Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.
    • This Be Her Verse.
    • Alpha.
  • Camille Pépin

    Indra

    Performer: Raphaëlle Moreau. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Camille Pépin: Chamber Music.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 120.
  • Maurizio Cazzati

    Ciaccona

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • All'Improviso.
    • ALPHA.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 2 No 1 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in G major, Op 2 No 1 (3rd mvmt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Fumika Mohri. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Michael Halász.
    • Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Grace Williams

    Sextet for oboe, trumpet and piano quartet (1st mvmt)

    Ensemble: London Chamber Ensemble.
    • Grace Williams: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Cygnets (Swan Lake)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Camille Pépin

    Indra

    Performer: Raphaëlle Moreau. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Camille Pépin: Chamber Music.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 120.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Gustav Holst

    Indra, God of Storm and Battle (Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op 24)

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Christopher Maltman.
    • Naxos.
  • Simon Jeffes

    Giles Farnaby's Dream

    Ensemble: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • Virgin.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Vieille prière bouddhique

    Singer: Raymond Amade. Choir: Chœurs Élisabeth Brasseur. Performer: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Everest.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White's Dance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Roald Dahl).
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 03.
  • Christian Sinding

    Suite in Old Style, Op 10

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Nordic Rhapsody.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Allegro in F major (Water Music)

    Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Nunc Dimittis (Vespers, No 5)

    Choir: USSR State Academic Russian Choir. Conductor: Alexander Sveshnikov. Singer: Konstantin Ognevoy.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Ave Maria (Vespers, No 6)

    Choir: USSR State Academic Russian Choir. Conductor: Alexander Sveshnikov.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in G flat major, Op 25 No 9

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 21.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Performer: André Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Previn plays Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, London Symphony Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

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  • Fri 9 Jun 2023 09:00

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