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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 15 Aug 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Gondoliers (Overture)

    Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Messiah)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Impromptu No. 1 In A-Flat Major, Op.29

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Scriabin/Faure/Chopin: Impromptus.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
    • 11.
  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    The Boatswain's Mate - Overture

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • The Boatswain's Mate.
    • Retrospect Opera.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Awake Awake

    Music Arranger: Fay Hield. Ensemble: The Full English.
    • Topic Records.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances for orchestra (No 1)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 19.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Borodin Quartet.
    • Gabrieli Quartet - Borodin Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 007.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater in F minor)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • The Decca Sound: Celebrating 50 Years of the Decca Sound.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Polonaise [Cherevichki]

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda, Overture and Polona.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Humoresque, Op 2 No 2 (Two Fantasy Pieces)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no.4 in D major K.218 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Luciano Berio

    Azerbaijan Love Song (Folk Songs)

    Singer: Cathy Berberian. Ensemble: Juilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Luciano Berio.
    • Berio: Recital I for Cathy, Folk Songs: Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.
    • 20.
  • Eduardo Fal煤

    Malambo del Sur

    Performer: Eduardo Fal煤.
    • Eduardo Falu: Resolana.
    • Nimbus.
    • 6.
  • Jean Mouton

    Domine, salvum fac regem

    Choir: Diabolus in Musica. Director: Antoine Guerber.
    • Bayard Musique.
  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-Danse [Capriol Suite] (String orchestra)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • Peter Warlock

    Pavane [Capriol Suite] (arr. for brass quintet)

    Music Arranger: Alan Gout. Ensemble: Equale Brass.
    • NIMBUS.
  • Peter Warlock

    Tordion [Capriol Suite] (arr. for recorder ensemble)

    Performer: Leif Karlsson. Music Arranger: Stanley Taylor. Ensemble: Swedish Recorder Quartet.
    • CHAMBER SOUND.
  • Peter Warlock

    Bransles [Capriol Suite] (arr. for guitar quartet)

    Music Arranger: William Kanengiser. Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • DELOS.
  • Peter Warlock

    Pieds-en-l'air [Capriol Suite] (arr. for organ)

    Performer: John Keys.
    • Organ Miscellany 3.
    • 20.
  • Peter Warlock

    Mattachins [Capriol Suite] (arr. for full orchestra)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Kentuckiana Op.287 (conclusion)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • Darius Milhaud - Music for Two Pianos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Charles Gounod

    O Dieu! que de bijoux... Ah! je ris (Faust)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.
    • Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
    • Erato.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Sapphire Rag

    Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1901.
  • Georges Auric

    The Robbery [The Lavender Hill Mob Suite]

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • The Film Music of Georges Auric.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Samuel Barber

    A Slumber Song of the Madonna

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Glitter and be Gay)

    Singer: Barbara Cook. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick.
    • Sony.
  • Antonio Cesti

    Alma Mia [L'Argia]

    Singer: Raquel Andueza. Ensemble: La Galan铆a.
    • Anima E Corpo.
  • Claude Debussy

    Debussy: L'isle joyeuse, L. 106

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • Debussy.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.
  • Grace Williams

    Ballads for orchestra (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Welsh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Lyrita.
  • Anon Peruvian

    Hanacpachap Cussicuinin

    Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice. Director: Matthias Maute.
    • ANALEKTA.
  • Anonymous

    Matais de inc锚ndios

    Ensemble: Orquestra e Coro Vox Brasiliensis. Conductor: Ricardo Kanji.
    • K617.
  • Anon Peruvian

    Cachua: Al Nacimiento de Christo Nuestro Senor [A Voz e Bajo]

    Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No.10 in E minor, H.54

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Listen to the Lambs

    Choir: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. Director: Brainerd Blyden-Taylor.
    • MARGUIS CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet for two horns and strings quartet, Op 81b (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Raymonda

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Waltzes and Polonaises by Russion Composers.
    • Melodiya / BMG.
    • 1.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Framlingham Castle (Suffolk Suite)

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

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