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Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall

Live from the Royal Albert Hall on the day of the First Night of the Proms, Tom McKinney presents music and guests.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall on the day of the First Night of the Proms, Tom McKinney presents music and guests.

Tom starts the day by welcoming organist Rachel Mahon, ahead of her Prom with the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra on the 28th August; she'll put the Royal Albert Hall organ through its paces with music by Bach. Plus Tom chats with the Proms Concert Managers, and hears from Proms performers about their season highlights.

Including music by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens and Mozart.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Jul 2025 06:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite (Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Chineke! Records.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • GLOSSA.

  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So [Porgy & Bess]

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV.542

    Performer: Rachel Mahon.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Celebration

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • An Orkney Wedding.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Six Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • B茅la Bart贸k 鈥� Works for Piano Solo.
    • Philips.
    • 17-22.

  • Saverio Mercadante

    Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.101 (1st mvt: Allegro maestoso)

    Performer: Joy Farrall. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Mercadante: 2 Clarinet Concertos; Rossini; Donizetti.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Dances for Orchestra (Nos.3-5)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto for piano and strings in A minor, MWV.02 (3rd mvt: Finale)

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets)

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Performer: Dominic Martens. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Strauss / Holst: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 011.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major, BWV 525 - I. Allegro

    Performer: Rachel Mahon.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    The Man Who Knew Too Much: Prelude

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Herrmann - The Film Scores.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Richard Galliano. Music Arranger: Avi Avital. Music Arranger: Richard Galliano.
    • Avi Avital - Between Worlds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Aurora Borealis

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Naomi Woo.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Emperor Waltz

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Song for orchestra, Op 33

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Busch.
    • Naxos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Sonata No.1 in C major, Op.1 (3rd mvt: Scherzo)

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • BIS.

  • Jean-Baptiste Senaill茅

    Sonate en r茅 majeur / D major op. 3 no 10 mov. 4 Allegro assai

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: William Christie.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Frederick Delius

    Violin Sonata No.3 (2nd mvt: Andante Scherzando)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Delius: The Four Violin Sonatas.
    • Conifer Classics.
    • 8.

  • Luciano Berio

    Azerbaijan Love Song (Folk Songs)

    Singer: Cathy Berberian. Ensemble: Julliard Ensemble. Conductor: Luciano Berio.
    • Berio: Recital I for Cathy, Folk Songs: Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.
    • 20.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Jul 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3