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Your perfect classical playlist

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.

1005 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

Boxing Day 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Gli Uccelli (1. Preludio)

    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in D - BWV 1067 - (Minuet & Badinerie)

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 English Folk Songs - V. Wassail Song

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Choir: Holst Singers.
    • Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale 鈥 Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare Set.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Winter Bonfire - Suite, Op.122 - 3. Waltz On Ice

    Conductor: Benjamin Northey. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
    • Russia: Romance And Revolution.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 19.
  • Philip Glass

    脡tudes - No. 2 (arr. piano and string quartet)

    Music Arranger: Christian Badura.
    • Philip Glass: Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Jonathan Dove

    The Ringing Isle

    • Orchid Music Limited.
  • Frederick Delius

    Sleigh Ride (Winter Night)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Delius in Norway.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Les Petits Riens - 'Pantomime'

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln.
    • Mozart.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 9.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Samson et Dalila Op.47 (Bacchanale)

    Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in f minor Op. 2 (I. Allegro Energico)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble. Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 24.
  • Jean de Sainte-Colombe

    Gavotte du Tendre (Mr. de Sainte Colombe)

    Performer: Christoph Coin.
    • Tous les matins du monde (Bande originale du film).
    • Aliavox.
    • 4.
  • Eric Coates

    London Suite - (III. Knightsbridge March)

    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works Vol. 1.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 15.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    25 Irish Songs WoO 152 - No 8 "Come Draw We Round a Cheerful Ring"

    • Naive.
  • Trad.

    All in the Morning

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin.
    • The Three Harps of Christmas.
    • GFR.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto No. 4 in F Major, HWV 292 - (IV. Allegro)

    • Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
    • 16.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.1 in C minor 'The Bells of Zlonice' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    O magnum mysterium (motet)

    Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Palestrina Volume 2.
    • CORO.
    • 15.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C Major, Hob. XVII: 4

    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 11.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 7.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Introduction & Serenata (Suite 'after themes, fragments, and pieces by Pergolesi')

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • Stravinsky: Complete music for violin and piano: Marwood/Ades.
    • Hyperion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le jardin f茅erique (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • Giulini in America: Los Angeles Philharmonic/Giulini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 8.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Waltz Coda; Midnight (Cinderella)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Max Richter

    Four Seasons Recomposed - Winter 3

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • DG.
  • Erik Satie

    Pi猫ces froides - "Danses de travers" - III. Encore

    Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Hidden Gems for Reed Quintet.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 15.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Strings - (I. Allegretto)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Performer: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.
  • Giovanni Picchi

    Picchi: Canzon No. 17 a 8

    • The Floating City: Sonatas, Canzonas & Dances by Contemporaries of Monteverdi.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (2nd mvt: Longing)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.
    • 003.
  • Peter Ludwig Hertel

    Clog Dance (La fille mal gard茅e)

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Herold/Messager: La Fille mal gardee: Wordsworth/Lanchbery/Jacquillat.
    • EMI.
    • 14.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.
  • Richard Harvey

    Concerto Incantanto: V. Incantesimi (The Spells)

    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

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