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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is organist and conductor Simon Preston. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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 another track from our featured artist this week, the late organist and conductor Simon Preston.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 1 Jun 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Giovanni Antonio Guido

    Concerto Op.3 no.2 'Summer' (opening)

    Performer: Andr茅s Gabetta. Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Op茅ra Royal.
    • Chateau de Versailles.
  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque (Passepied)

    Music Arranger: Thibault Bertin-Maghit. Ensemble: collectif9.
    • ALPHA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.
  • Paul Patterson

    Tarantula (Spiders Op.48)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Trad.

    Calusari Nos 1-3

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Emilia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky. Performer: Martin Gjakonovski.
    • Naive.
  • Clara Schumann

    Abendfeier in Venedig (3 Part-songs)

    Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.
    • Schumann - Die Chorwerke Vol. 2.
    • EBS.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Sonata no.3 in A minor Op.28 'From old notebooks'

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.239 'Serenata Notturna'

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Samuel Barber

    Knoxville - summer of 1915 Op.24

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Honey and Rue: Kathleen Battle.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    24 Caprices Op.1 (no.10 in G minor)

    Performer: Joo Yeon Sir.
    • Rubicon.
  • Albert Roussel

    Danse de l'araign茅e (Le festin de l'araign茅e Op.17)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅.
    • Dukas: Polyeucte Overture & L'apprenti sorcier - Roussel: Le festin de l'araign茅.
    • BIS.
    • 205.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in A flat "Aeolian Harp" (12 Studies Op.25)

    Performer: Sonya Bach.
    • Chopin: Etudes.
    • Rubicon.
    • 113.
  • 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.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Te lucis ante terminum (Procul recedant somnia) for 5 voices

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    From the Diary of a Fly (Mikrokosmos volume 6 Sz.107)

    Performer: Andreas Bach.
    • Bart贸k, Vol. 5: Complete Works for Piano Solo 鈥 Bart贸k-Reschofsky Piano Method.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 303.
  • Cristoforo Caresana

    La Tarantella (La Tarantella 1675)

    Performer: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Performer: Christina Pluhar.
    • Alla Napoletana.
    • Erato.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in D major Op.46 no.6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Florence Price

    Moon Behind a Cloud (Snapshots)

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
    • Lorelt.
  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster (Pi猫ces de fantaisie, Suite no.3)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A major D.96

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op.120 no.2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • ECM.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    Sure On This Shining Night

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Performer: Fabio Bidini.
    • Avie.
  • Henry Purcell

    Now that the sun hath veiled his light Z.193 [An Evening hymn on a ground]

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Performer: Toby Carr.
    • Battle Cry: She Speaks.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 15.
  • David Bruce

    Death is a Friend of Ours (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Sean Shibe. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Yizhar Karshon. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts.
    • DG.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Nativitas, A celebration of peace: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.2 in C major Op.61 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

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