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Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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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Wed 23 Nov 2022 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.42

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • William Byrd

    Laudate pueri Dominum

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Thomas Tallis and William Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575.
    • Obsidian.
    • 17.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in G major Op.8 no.9 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • ERATO.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    The little train of the caipira (Bachiana brasileira no.2)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Minczuk.
    • Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 1.
    • Bis.
    • 4.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 8.

  • Jordi Savall

    Canarios (Improvisation)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • Ostinato.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.64 no.5 'The Lark' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Cavi-music.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in B flat major, Op.7`3

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Crocodile

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Benjamin Britten, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake: Gerald Finley and Julius.
    • Hyperion.
    • 31.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Markus Stenz.
    • OEHMS.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor Op.11 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arthur Honegger

    Pacific 231

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • DECCA.

  • Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band.
    • Bluebird.
    • 10.

  • Luigi Denza

    Funiculi-Funicula

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Les Solistes de l'opera national de lyon.
    • Schönberg : Transcriptions - Elatus.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Waltz Theme (Murder on the Orient Express)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata pian' e forte à 8

    Ensemble: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Collins Classics.

  • Philip Glass

    Etude No. 4

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • C.1300 - C.2000.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 11.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Démophoon (Un moment à l’autel)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Véronique Gens. Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge. Director: Julien Chauvin.
    • ALPHA.
    • 8.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Little Suite

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • DG.

  • Marguerite Monnot

    Hymne à l'amour

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Nov 2022 09:00
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