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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are British choir Polyphony. Presented by Tom McKinney.

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

0915 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers 鈥 our final piece from this week's ensemble in focus, the British choir Polyphony.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Last on

Fri 6 May 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Tournament Galop

    Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Hannah Peel

    The Unfolding

    Singer: Victoria Oruwari. Orchestra: Paraorchestra. Conductor: Charles Hazlewood.
    • The Unfolding.
    • Real World.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • William Walton

    Johannesburg Festival Overture

    Conductor: Andr茅 Kostelanetz. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • The British Music Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music - suite in F major HWV.348 (Allegro - andante - allegro)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite no.1 in E flat major Op.28`1

    Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Duncan Stubbs.
    • British Classics.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.12 in A major K.414 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Mir ist so wunderbar (Fidelio)

    Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Lise Davidsen. Singer: Georg Zeppenfeld. Singer: Cornel Frey. Orchestra: Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 601.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Portraits of Langston (Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret)

    Ensemble: McGill / McHale Trio.
    • Cedille.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Willow Song (Otello)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Singer: Larissa Diadkova. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Philip Glass

    Symphony No. 3, 4th movement

    Orchestra: McDuffie Centre For Strings Orchestra. Conductor: Ward Stare.
    • Orange Mountain Music : OMM-0113.
    • Orange Mountain Music.
    • 13.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Julia Florida (Barcarola)

    Performer: John Williams.
    • The Great Paraguayan - Solo Guitar Works by Barrios.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlk枚nig D.328

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haeifliger.
    • Schubert Lieder Volume 7: Erlk枚nig.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Comedians' Galop (The Comedians)

    Orchestra: Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Loris Tjeknavorian.
    • Kabalevsky: Romeo and Juliet - Suite, The Comedians - Suite, Colas Breugnon - Su.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E flat Op.31 No.3 "La Chasse" (4th mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Beethoven.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Ron Goodwin

    Miss Marple's Theme

    Orchestra: Ron Goodwin and His Concert Orchestra.
    • Two Sides of Ron Goodwin.
    • EMI.
    • 18.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Stefan Vladar. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Quatuor Op.95 'Americain'.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: Polyphony. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • A Christmas Present from Polyphony.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Phaeton Op.39

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 002.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire - overture Op.21

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Ernesto Halffter

    Danza de la pastora arr Zabaleta (Sonatina)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta.
    • Albeniz/Falla/Turina/Granados etc: Arpa Espanola (Spanish harp): Zabaleta.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland the Populist: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 1.

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  • Fri 6 May 2022 09:00

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