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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 31 Oct 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the tumblers (Snow maiden - suite)

    Music Arranger: WIlfred Heaton. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Steve Reich

    Duet for two violins and string orchestra

    Performer: Andreas Hartmann. Performer: Waltraut Wächter. Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • Steve Reich: Duet.
    • Sony.
    • 001.
  • Xaver Scharwenka

    Spanish Serenade

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Spanish Album: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, H.15.25, 'Gypsy' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2003, Martha Argerich and friends, Chamber Music.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Egberto Gismonti

    Agua e vinho

    Performer: Sérgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • Saga dos Migrantes: Sergio and Odair Assad.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.2 in G major Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestrator: Bernt Simen Lund. Orchestrator: Henning Kraggerud. Performer: Henning Kraggerud. Orchestra: Tromsø Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Three Concerti for Violin and Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto no.1 in A minor Wq.166 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Si dolce è'l tormento

    Singer: Arianna Savall. Singer: Petter Udland Johansen. Ensemble: Hirundo Maris.
    • Carpe Diem Records: 16307.
    • Carpe Diem Records.
    • 8.
  • John Ireland

    Mai-Dun

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Charles Gounod

    String Quartet no.3 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Cambini-Paris.
    • Gounod: Complete String Quartets.
    • ´¡±è²¹°ù³Ùé.
    • 111.
  • Nico Muhly

    The Revd Mustard His Installation Prelude

    Performer: Amanda Mole.
    • Reger, J.S. Bach, Messiaen & Others: Works for Organ.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Carl Michael Bellman

    The wingèd butterfly is seen in Haga

    Singer: Anna Emilsson. Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Svenska Sanger.
    • todo.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D Major K.250 'Haffner' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Cologne Academy. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein musikalischer Spaß.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • George Enescu

    2 Intermezzi Op.12 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Director: Lawrence Foster.
    • Georges Enesco, Symphonie de chambre op.33, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne...
    • CLAVES.
    • 5.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Spanish Guitar Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Melodia [ii]

    Performer: Guðni Franzson. Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson.
    • ¹ó´Ç°ù»å±ôâ²Ô»å¾±²¹.
    • 4AD.
    • 4.
  • José Galhardo

    Coimbra

    Composer: Raul Ferrão. Performer: Amália Rodrigues. Performer: Don Byas.
    • With Don Byas.
    • BCD/3RDP.
    • 9.
  • Johann Melchior Molter

    Concerto pastorale (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otono porteño

    Performer: Alfredo Marcucci. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Orfeo.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 17.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Sonata no.1 Op.39 'Sonata-Fantasia' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Nikolai Kapustin Piano Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 4.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tempest Trio.
    • Dvořák: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 – Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Harold Budd

    Late October

    Composer: Brian Eno. Performer: Harold Budd. Performer: Brian Eno.
    • EDITIONS EG.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Autumn; Petit adagio (The Seasons, Op.67)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giovanni Picchi

    Canzon Prima (Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti)

    Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco. Director: Giulia Genini.
    • Arcana.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony Op.4)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – Modern & 20th Century Classics.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 5.

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