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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

Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro - Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Tring.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Romance Op.36

    Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Ensemble: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Tchaikovsky 4 - Francesca da Rimini / Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
    • 4.
  • William Marshall Hutchison

    Dream Faces

    Performer: Reginald Mobley. Ensemble: Agave.
    • ACIS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.27 (no.2 in D flat major)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Pineapple Poll (Opening Dance)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Sullivan: Pineapple Poll etc: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Why rage fiercely the heathen? (Three Psalms)

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • ONDINE.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: William Tell: Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Decca.
  • Joaquim Frederico de Brito

    Loucura

    Performer: Mariza.
    • Warner.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Haydn: The Paris Symphonies: Orchestra of the 18th Century/Bruggen.
    • Philips.
    • 9.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Scarf Dance (Callirhoë)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices - New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 2.
  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thaïs)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Paris, La Belle Epoque: Yo-Yo Ma/Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Bob Becker. Performer: James Preiss.
    • Steve Reich: Proverb / Nagoya Marimbas / City Life.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 2.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Agnus Dei (Missa Salve intemerata)

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John's: Choir of St John's College, Cambr.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March (The Love for Three Oranges - suite)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.
  • Anon.

    I Will Give My Love an Apple

    Singer: Benjamin Appl.
    • Alpha.
  • Herbie Hancock

    Cantaloupe Island

    Performer: Herbie Hancock. Performer: Freddie Hubbard. Performer: Ron Carter. Performer: Tony Williams.
    • Cantaloupe Island.
    • Blue Note.
    • 01.
  • George Frideric Handel

    O Ruddier Than The Cherry (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Chandos.
  • Charles Edward Horn

    Cherry Ripe

    Singer: Greta Bradman. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.
  • Scott Joplin

    Pineapple Rag

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • EMI.
  • Leos Janáček

    Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto No 3 in A major, Wq 168 (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • The Flute King: Music from the Court of Frederick the Great: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    The Hunt (Marnie)

    Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • Herrmann: Film Scores: Los Angeles Philharmonic/Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.
  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Andrei Pushkarev. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in G major, Op.129 'Rage over a lost penny'

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • Bach-Bussoni - Chaconne, Beethoven - Rondos: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Delius Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Morley

    Joyne Hands

    Singer: Robert Tear. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Fantasies, Ayres and Dances: The Julian Bream Consort.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.97 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:00

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