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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.

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Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les Biches)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Signum.

  • Traditional Italian

    Tu scendi dalle stelle

    Music Arranger: Graham Ross. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross. Ensemble: Dmitri Ensemble.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Traditional Irish

    The Wexford Carol

    Performer: Carducci String Quartet.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme Op.74)

    Music Arranger: Sydney Baynes. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Juan García de Zéspedes

    Convidando está la noche

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symhonies.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for viola and small orchestra - Group 1 (Prelude, Carol & Christmas Dance)

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Vaughan Williams: Suite / Flos Campi.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-3.

  • Jule Styne

    Let it snow

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Julian Lage. Performer: Rob Moose. Performer: Michael Aarons. Performer: William Holhouse. Music Arranger: Rob Moose. Singer: Chris Lightcap.
    • Musical Gifts From Joshua Bell and Friends.
    • Sony/Masterworks.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Strings, RV 270a in E Major 'Il riposo - per il santissimo Natale':

    Performer: Bojan Čičić. Ensemble: The Illyria Consort.
    • La Notte: Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night.
    • Delphian Records LTD.
    • 26.

  • Trad.

    The Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Mairi Campbell. Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Revenge of the Folk Singers.
    • Delphian.
    • 2.

  • William Henry Fry

    Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Rowe.
    • Fry: Santa Claus Symphony / Niagara Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Choir: Dresden Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
    • Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium; Dresdner Kammerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo C.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op.117 no.1 'Schlummerlied'

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Philips.

  • Trad.

    Sans Day Carol

    Singer: Maddy Prior. Ensemble: Carnival Band.
    • A Tapestry of Carols.
    • Saydisc.
    • 1.

  • Danny Elfman

    Ice Dance (Edward Scissorhands)

    Ensemble: The Paulist Choristers of California. Orchestra: Uncredited orchestra. Conductor: Shirley Walker.
    • Edward Scissorhands.
    • Geffen.
    • 7.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Oratorio de Noël, Op. 12 - Tecum principium

    Performer: Romano Giefer. Singer: Antonia Bourvé. Singer: Marcus Ullmann. Singer: Jens Hamann. Conductor: Holger Speck. Ensemble: Les Favorites. Choir: Vocalensemble Rastatt.
    • Saint-Saëns: Oratorio de Noël.
    • Carus.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker - Suite)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 9.

  • Sérgio Assad

    Snowflakes

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Snowflakes.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 1.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum mysterium

    Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium.
    • Bayer Records.
    • 17.

  • Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych

    Carol of the Bells

    Performer: Metamorphose String Orchestra.
    • Halidon.

  • Maurice Walters

    The Winter's Brightening

    Music Arranger: Joanna Forbes. Music Arranger: Alexander L’Estrange. Choir: BBC Singers. Choir: Richard Pearce. Choir: Nicholas Chalmers.

  • Patric Standford

    A Christmas Carol Symphony

    Conductor: Gavin Sutherland. Orchestra: Prague City Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Hely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony / Standford / Kelly.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    2 Christmas Lullabies: No. 2, Quiet Night

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Ondine.

  • Sarah Quartel

    This Endris Night

    Ensemble: Choir of Somerville College, Oxford.
    • Resonus.

  • Träd

    Haneros Haluli

    Ensemble: The Knights.
    • Warner.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata Pian e Forte à 8

    Ensemble: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Sacred Brass.
    • Lso Live.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:00
    BBC Radio 3

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