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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

Tue 22 Aug 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square (3 Dance Episodes from On the Town)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 603.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO.59, 'Für Elise'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Eroica Variations/Fur Elise etc: Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 16.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Arnold Bax

    4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Bax: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Gidon Kremer.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Capriccio in A flat major

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn-Hensel: Works for Cello & Piano.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 8.
  • Edward Elgar

    Minuet (Severn Suite, Op.87)

    Ensemble: The Fairey Band. Conductor: James Gourlay.
    • Brass from the Masters, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major, K 417 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Mozart: The Horn Concertos - Halstead, The Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Seeds of Love

    Performer: Desmond Dupré. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • Vanguard.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty

    Orchestrator: Igor Stravinsky. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fée etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite No 2 in D major (HWV 349): Allegro

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Georg Kallweit.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio Brillante in B minor, Op.22

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Day Dream [Remastered 1995]

    Ensemble: Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra.
    • The Great Ellington Units.
    • RCA Bluebird.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 26.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    In Dreams (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Bryn Terfel - The Vagabond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Paul Reade

    Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden: I. Prelude: Andante pastorale

    Conductor: Robin O’Neill. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • A Celebration of Paul Reade.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Charles Williams

    The Dream of Olwen

    Performer: Wilhelm Davos. Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Osborne.
    • CINEMA GALA.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hänsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Frederick Keel

    Trade Winds

    Singer: Jonathan Lemalu. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Songs by Brahms, Faure, Finzi and Schubert.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op 44 (4th mvt) Finale: Allegro

    Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Joan Enric Lluna. Performer: Naomi Butterworth.
    • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Music.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in F major, Wq 183 No 3

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 9_³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas SøndergÃ¥rd.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Casta diva (Norma)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Choir: International Chamber Vocalists. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Bellini: Norma: Cecilia Bartoli/Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E minor, Op 119 No 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Aaron Copland

    El salon Mexico

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

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