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.
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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.
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Claude Debussy
Suite bergamasque (Passepied)
Music Arranger: Thibault Bertin-Maghit. Ensemble: collectif9.- ALPHA.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- Pentatone.
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Paul Patterson
Tarantula (Spiders Op.48)
Performer: Lavinia Meijer.- Channel Classics.
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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.
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Trad.
Calusari Nos 1-3
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Emilia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky. Performer: Martin Gjakonovski.- Naive.
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Clara Schumann
Abendfeier in Venedig (3 Part-songs)
Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.- Schumann - Die Chorwerke Vol. 2.
- EBS.
- 1.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Sonata no.3 in A minor Op.28 'From old notebooks'
Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in D major K.239 'Serenata Notturna'
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- ALPHA.
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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.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
24 Caprices Op.1 (no.10 in G minor)
Performer: Joo Yeon Sir.- Rubicon.
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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.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Study in A flat "Aeolian Harp" (12 Studies Op.25)
Performer: Sonya Bach.- Chopin: Etudes.
- Rubicon.
- 113.
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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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Thomas Tallis
Te lucis ante terminum (Procul recedant somnia) for 5 voices
Choir: Stile Antico.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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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.
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Cristoforo Caresana
La Tarantella (La Tarantella 1675)
Performer: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Performer: Christina Pluhar.- Alla Napoletana.
- Erato.
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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.
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Florence Price
Moon Behind a Cloud (Snapshots)
Performer: Samantha Ege.- Lorelt.
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Louis Vierne
Carillon de Westminster (Pi猫ces de fantaisie, Suite no.3)
Performer: Simon Preston.- DG.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Concerto in A major D.96
Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.- ALPHA.
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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.
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Morten Lauridsen
Sure On This Shining Night
Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Performer: Fabio Bidini.- Avie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony no.2 in C major Op.61 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.- Harmonia Mundi.
Broadcast
- Wed 1 Jun 2022 09:00成人快手 Radio 3