
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.
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Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man (ѿý Philharmonic Studio Concerts)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Josef Suk
Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- BR Klassik.
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Francis Poulenc
Intermezzo in A flat major
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.- Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 11.
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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.
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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.
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Paul Patterson
Tarantula (Spiders Op.48)
Performer: Lavinia Meijer.- Channel Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K 459 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Richard Goode. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Nonesuch.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Rosary Sonatas XVI: Passacaglia for violin solo in G minor 'The Guardian Angel'
Performer: Isabelle Faust.- Harmonia Mundi.
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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.
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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.
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Joseph Haydn
My mother bids me bind my hair, H XXVIa 27
Performer: Jörg Demus. Singer: Elly Ameling.- Pentatone.
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Claude Debussy
Premiere rhapsodie
Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.- Belle époque.
- PENTATONE.
- 1.
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Spiritual
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.- Summertime.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 17.
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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.
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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.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major, RV.99
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.- Concerti da Camera Vol. 4: Il Giardino Armonic.
- Teldec.
- 1.
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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.
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Athanasius Kircher
Tarantella napoletana
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- La Tarantella - Antidotum Tarantulae.
- Alpha.
- 3.
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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.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Music for children, Op.65: Tarantella; Procession of Grasshoppers; Catch me if you can
Performer: Olli Mustonen.- ONDINE.
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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.
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Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore 'Stowkoski version'
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Chandos.
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John Dowland
Time stands still
Performer: Sean Shibe. Singer: Karim Sulayman.- PENTATONE.
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Catrin Finch
Listen to the Grass Grow
Performer: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita.- SOAR.
- bendigedig.
- 6.
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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.
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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.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Romance Op.36
Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Ensemble: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.- EMI.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in E major, Op.6 (1st mvt)
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Murray Perahia - Mendelssohn.
- CBS.
- 1.
Broadcast
- Tue 24 Oct 2023 09:00ѿý Radio 3