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Tom McKinney

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are British choir Polyphony. Presented by Tom McKinney.

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

0915 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.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers – another track from the choir Polyphony, our featured ensemble this week.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Thu 5 May 2022 09:00
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Music Played

  • Leopold Godowsky

    Toccata in G flat major, Op 13 'Perpetual Motion'

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • The Composer-Pianists: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus HWV.232 (opening chorus)

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • Alpha.

  • Eugène Ysaÿe

    Caprice d'apès l'Etude en forme de Valse de C. Saint-Säens, Op.52

    Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Performer: David Meier.
    • Correspondances.
    • RUBICON.
    • 1.

  • Imogen Holst

    Leiston suite

    Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Un Sueno en la Floresta

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (Longing)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.
    • 003.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasie, KV 397

    Performer: Federico Colli.
    • Chandos.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si può fare?

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunità. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Music.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major D.471

    Ensemble: Trio Zimmermann.
    • Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart’s Divertimento.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto Perpetuo (Bluegrass version)

    Performer: Béla Fleck.
    • Perpetual Motion.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 20.

  • Freda Swain

    Swain: English Reel

    Performer: Helen Callus. Performer: Robert McDonald.
    • A Portrait Of The Viola.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 7.

  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm

    Performer: Django Reinhardt. Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Regis.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Toccata d'après le final du 5ème concerto, Op 111 No 6

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Saint-Saens: The complete etudes: Piers Lane.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for strings, RV 114

    Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings: Arte Dei Suonatori.
    • Bis.
    • 1-2.

  • Arvo Pärt

    ...which was the Son of...

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Arvo Part: Triodion, Nunc Dimittis, Salve Regina.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    I vespri siciliani: La primavera

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
    • Decca.

  • Frank Bridge

    Fantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Symphony no.5 Op.87 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Salvator mundi

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.

  • Richard Strauss

    Festliches Präludium, Op 61

    Performer: Peter Solomon. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Strauss: Orchestral Works: Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 23.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 May 2022 09:00
    BBC Radio 3

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