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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 30 Jan 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne [Danse]

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in D minor, RV.63 'La Follia'

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 15.
  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Rivers of Light

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo Capriccioso, Op.62

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • RCA.
  • William Grant Still

    Land of romance (Africa)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 3.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 8.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    Thule, the period of cosmographie

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • Madrigals.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 204.
  • Frank Bridge

    Valse intermezzo

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral works vol.5: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ NOW/Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 14.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (4th & 5th mvts)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva EidukaitytÄ—-StorastienÄ—. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 008.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.2 in A minor Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Mahler

    I went this morning over the field (Songs of a Wayfarer)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major D.951

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DG.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Una Limosna por el amor de Dios

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Latino.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 20.
  • John Barry

    Out of Africa (Main Theme)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: John McNeely.
    • VARESE SARABANDE.
  • Tunde Jegede

    Lamentation

    Performer: Chris Coco. Performer: Sacha Puttnam.
    • Remasterpiece.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Duke Ellington

    African Flowers

    • L'Ecume Des Jours.
    • Universal Music Division Mercury Records.
    • 33.
  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite (Akinla)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • CHICAGO Sinfonietta/Freeman.
    • Cedille.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B Flat Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Bis.
  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Mother's Love

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • MSR CLASSICS.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Adagio in C major

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Mel Bonis

    Piece Op.189

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • ALPHA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in A major K.331 (Rondo alla turca)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DECCA.

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