Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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.
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Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia da caccia in G major (1st mvt)
Performer: Hermann Baumann. Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Performer: Timothy Brown. Performer: Nicholas Hill. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.- Philips.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288, Act III Scene 2 (Excerpts): Danse Bacchanale
Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest.- Saint-Saëns: Dances & Ballet Music.
- Naxos.
- 123.
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Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.- BIS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.5 in D major K.175 (1st mvt)
Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.- BIS.
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Hector Berlioz
Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- DELPHIAN.
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Robert Schumann
Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, Op.70
Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Ian Brown.- Hyperion.
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Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato
Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings / Dvorák: Serenade For Strings.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Francis Poulenc
Les chemins de l'amour
Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Chanson d'Amour.
- Warner Classics.
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Johannes Ockeghem
Intemerata Dei Mater
Orchestrator: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Egarr.- An Evening with Leopold Stokowski.
- Glossa.
- 18.
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Dario Castello
Sonata - 1629 no. 6
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.- AAM RECORDINGS.
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George Frideric Handel
V'adore pupile (Julius Caesar)
Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.- Handel's Unsung Heroes.
- PENTATONE.
- 405.
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Benjamin Britten
The Young person's guide to the orchestra (Op.34) (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: LSO.
- Decca.
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Henry Purcell
Hole in the Wall [Hornpipe] (Abdelazer)
Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.- The Alehouse Sessions.
- RUBICON.
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Henry Purcell
Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)
Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.- The Alehouse Sessions.
- RUBICON.
- 102.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 4.
- Chandos.
- 005.
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Claude Debussy
La danse de Puck (Preludes Bk 1)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- Debussy: Preludes.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Arthur Sullivan
Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)
Performer: Richard Suart. Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.- That's Entertainment.
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Elizabeth Maconchy
Ophelia's song
Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.- Stone Records.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Mandolin Dance (Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Berliner Philharmoniker, Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op 53: IX. & X.
- Nikolai Kapustin - Piano Music.
- Hyperion Records.
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Richard Strauss
Allerseelen (8 Lieder aus Letzte Blätter Op.10)
Singer: Diana Damrau. Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs, Diana Damrau/Christian Thielemann.
- Virgin Classics.
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Josef Lanner
Die Mozartisten - waltz Op.196
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- New Years Concert 2006.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quintet no.2 in C minor Op.115 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.- Fauré Complete chamber music for strings.
- Warner Classics.
- 506.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Jubilate Deo
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Ensemble: Nuova Musica. Conductor: John Rutter.- Collegium.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D Major, TWV.54:D3
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
- harmonia mundi.
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