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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

Mon 20 Feb 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fêtes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy and Ravel: Pierre Boulez conducts.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Mystery (Rosary) sonata no.11 'The Resurrection of Jesus'

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Market Place (The Gadfly - suite Op.97a)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: Cheryomushki; The Bolt; etc.
    • DECCA.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • DIVOX.
    • 3.
  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • Argo.
    • 005.
  • 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.
  • Xavier Dubois Foley

    Shelter Island

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Xavier Dubois Foley.
    • DECCA.
  • François‐Adrien Boïeldieu

    Harp Concerto in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marisa Robles. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • DECCA.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia Op.26

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.1, Karelia etc: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Saraste.
    • RCA.
    • 9.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    L'Amour est le dieu de la paix (Anacréon)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Les Paladins. Conductor: Jérôme Corréas.
    • Le Triomphe De L'Amour.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    L'étoile (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Pitter Patter

    Performer: Goldner String Quartet. Performer: Diana Doherty. Performer: Elena Kats‐Chernin.
    • ABC.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Benedictus & Hosanna (Missa Divi Xaverii ZWV.12)

    Singer: Hana Blažíková. Choir: Collegium Vocale 1704. Orchestra: Collegium 1704. Director: Václav Luks.
    • Accent ACC 24301.
    • Accent.
    • 13.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Blue Air (Colour Suite)

    Performer: Leigh Kaplan.
    • Cambria.
  • Bill Evans

    Blue In Green

    Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: John Coltrane. Performer: Bill Evans. Performer: Paul Chambers. Performer: Jimmy Cobb.
    • Complete Columbia Recordings.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3

    Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.
    • Like to the Lark.
    • Chandos.
    • 07.
  • Percy Whitlock

    Wessex Suite (The Blue Pool)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    We sail the ocean blue (H.M.S. Pinafore)

    Lyricist: William Gilbert. Ensemble: Cast of Ohio Light Opera. Orchestra: Ohio Light Opera Orchestra. Conductor: J. Lynn Thompson.
    • H.M.S. Pinafore.
    • Albany Records.
    • 2.
  • Arthur Bliss

    2 Studies for Orchestra Op.16 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Bliss – Cello Concerto & Music for Strings.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Clancy Eccles

    A new division upon the ground bass of "John come and kiss me"

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Aaron Jay Kernis

    Musica Celestis

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Kernis: Second Symphony, Musica Celestis etc..
    • Argo.
    • 004.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV.854 (Bk 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.4 in F minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.
    • Lso Live.
    • 104.

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