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Great classical music for your morning

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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

Tue 24 Oct 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man (ѿý Philharmonic Studio Concerts)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Intermezzo in A flat major

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse marche

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • Chabrier: Oeuvres pour orchestre: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Plasson.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Paul Patterson

    Tarantula (Spiders Op.48)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K 459 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Goode. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Rosary Sonatas XVI: Passacaglia for violin solo in G minor 'The Guardian Angel'

    Performer: Isabelle Faust.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Brahms: 4 Symphonies: Berlin Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music suite in D major HWV.350 (Trumpet minuet)

    Performer: Simon Standage. Performer: Elizabeth Wilcock. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 19.
  • Joseph Haydn

    My mother bids me bind my hair, H XXVIa 27

    Performer: Jörg Demus. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Pentatone.
  • Claude Debussy

    Premiere rhapsodie

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Belle époque.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.
  • Spiritual

    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.
  • Émile Waldteufel

    The Skaters Waltz

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • With love from Vienna: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 14: II. Scherzo. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Erato Quartett Basel.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mayer & Sirmen: String Quartets.
    • CPO.
    • 202.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major, RV.99

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Concerti da Camera Vol. 4: Il Giardino Armonic.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert, Op. 77: IV. La tarantelle frétillante

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture, Petite Suite, & Other Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.
  • Athanasius Kircher

    Tarantella napoletana

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella - Antidotum Tarantulae.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.
  • Albert Roussel

    Le Festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet); mvts 7-11

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane/Le Festin de L'Araignée - ѿý Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 29-33.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Music for children, Op.65: Tarantella; Procession of Grasshoppers; Catch me if you can

    Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • ONDINE.
  • Howard Shore

    Shelob's Lair (The Lord of the rings: return of the king)

    Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shore.
    • Lord of the Rings 3 - The Return of the King.
    • Reprise.
    • 11.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore 'Stowkoski version'

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Singer: Karim Sulayman.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Catrin Finch

    Listen to the Grass Grow

    Performer: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita.
    • SOAR.
    • bendigedig.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'/Prometheus/Egmont.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Walk With Ivor Gurney.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Romance Op.36

    Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Ensemble: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • EMI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Sonata in E major, Op.6 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia - Mendelssohn.
    • CBS.
    • 1.

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  • Tue 24 Oct 2023 09:00

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