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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 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.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 New Year New Music – our Radio 3 presenters recommend a piece of new music.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 7 Jan 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • John Ireland

    Concertino pastorale (Toccata)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Ireland: A Downland Suite etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Cantata No 41)

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 33: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • John Bull

    Fantastic Galliard

    Performer: Kit Armstrong.
    • DG.
  • Thomas Adès

    Dances from Powder Her Face (Finale)

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Nachtwandler (6 Lieder, Op 86 No 3)

    Performer: Ulrich Eisenlohr. Singer: Christoph Prégardien.
    • NAXOS.
  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • Bartók: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • François Couperin

    Les Juméles [The Twins] (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 12)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Thomas Adès

    Dances from Powder Her Face (Finale)

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Music Arranger: Taracea. Ensemble: Taracea.
    • Alpha.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor Op.59`2 'Razumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Guillaume Balay

    Andante et allegretto

    Performer: Reinhold Friedrich. Performer: Thomas Duis.
    • Friedrich: The Trumpet Collection.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 12.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Un'aura amorosa (Cosi fan tutte)

    Singer: Rainer Trost. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 'Pathetique' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.
  • Scott Joplin

    Elite syncopations

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 8.
  • Samuel Barber

    The School for Scandal (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Thomas Schippers.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Midsummer Marriage: Act II (excerpt)

    Singer: Elizabeth Harwood. Singer: Stuart Burrows. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LYRITA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances: San Francisco SO, Edo de Waart.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Duruflé

    Suite for Organ, Op 5 (Toccata)

    Performer: Jennifer Bate.
    • UNICORN KANCHANA.
  • Joshua Borin

    Nature is returning

    Performer: Alexander Soares. Singer: Helen Charleston.
    • Delphian.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Missa Salisburgensis: Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Gershwin, Saint-Daens, Ravel: Benjamin Grosvenor, RLPO, James Judd.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    An den mond D.193

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Alexander Schmalcz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • William Walton

    Partita (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Colleen

    Sea of Tranquillity

    Performer: Colleen.
    • Leaf.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollo (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Paz Abreu

    Quejas

    Performer: Sharon Isbin.
    • Road to the Sun: Latin Romances for Guitar: Sharon Isbin.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 3 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Jan 2022 09:00