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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

Wed 26 Jul 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in C major, Op 46 No 1

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 17 in B flat major, K 570 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Concerto in E-Flat Major, 'Dumbarton Oaks': I. Tempo giusto

    Ensemble: The Knights.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu Es Petrus (Palestrina)

    Choir: Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Palestrina: Motets and Missa sine nomine.
    • Arts Productions Ltd.
    • 15.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Choice of Hercules: Yet can I hear that dulcet lay

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • Erato.
  • György Ligeti

    6 Bagatelles (no.1)

    Ensemble: London Winds.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Bruce Levingston.
    • Citizen.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 201.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for Jazz Band)

    Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Charles Mutter. Performer: Michael Gray. Performer: Timothy Welch. Performer: Ben Dawson. Performer: Benjamin Hughes. Performer: Andrew Wood.
    • RISE.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Une revue à Prague

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Teresa Carreno: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Nimbus.
    • 15.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Kate Royal.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Carl Stamitz

    Flute Concerto in D Major: III. Presto non assai

    Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Haydn, A. Stamitz & C. Stamitz: Concertos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 303.
  • Jessica Curry

    The Light We Cast (from 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' video game soundtrack)

    Lyricist: Dan Pinchbeck. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • Sony.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence Op.70 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Paul Neubauer. Performer: Colin Carr. Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Journeys: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D Minor, Kk 32

    Performer: Daria van den Bercken.
    • Domenico Scarlatti and Daria van den Bercken.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra, Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a while (Oedipus)

    Performer: Paul O’Dette. Singer: Drew Minter.
    • Purcell: Sweeter than Roses: Drew Minter.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite (Op.32), Jupiter, the bringer of jollity

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Planets: Suite for Orchestra, Op. 32 (1916).
    • I.M.P. Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Gaite parisienne (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Pieces from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75 - 6. Montagues and Capulets (A

    Music Arranger: Sergey Prokofiev.
    • Prokofiev: Pieces from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75: 6. Montagues and Capulets (Ar.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Lobgesang, Cantata H-U. 257 IV. Aria, O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte

    Singer: Chen Reiss. Ensemble: Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich. Conductor: Daniel Grossmann.
    • Onyx.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.1

    Music Arranger: Christian Garrick. Ensemble: The Budapest Cafe Orchestra.
    • Maestros of the Universe.
    • FLYING BLUE WHALE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe, violin & strings (BWV.1060) in C minor - Allegro

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Hannah Peel

    The Universe before Matter - first section

    Orchestra: Paraorchestra. Conductor: Charles Hazlewood.
    • The Unfolding.
    • REAL WORLD.
    • 1.
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.
  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.6 in D flat major)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (The Coronation of Poppea)

    Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Singer: Sonia Prina. Ensemble: Ensemble Claudiana. Director: Luca Pianca.
    • Naive.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt.
    • DaCapo.

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  • Wed 26 Jul 2023 09:00

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