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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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Thu 29 Dec 2022 09:00
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.31 in D major 'Hornsignal' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Bk.1)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Debussy: Preludes: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • György Kurtág

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - enraged

    Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet no.1 in B flat major Op.18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • William Walton Symphonies & Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude Op 25 No 11 'Winter Wind'

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.

  • William Byrd

    The March before the Battle [The Earl of Oxford's march]

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
    • 24.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D major K.448 for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.7 in G minor BWV.1058

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos nos.1, 2 & 4: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7-9.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Erik Satie

    Élégie (3 Mélodies)

    Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • Winter & Winter.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan, Op. 20

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • The Asia Tour.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 101.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major, KK.531

    Music Arranger: Wendy Carlos. Performer: Wendy Carlos.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano FS.68

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Chamber Music for Horn.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 10.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Boy Was Born: In the Bleak Mid-winter

    Choir: Københavns Drengekor. Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Incarnation.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1106.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Scott of the Antarctic (Blizzard)

    Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Film Music Vol. 1.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 10.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Leiermann (Winterreise D.911)

    Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Performer: Charles Spencer.
    • RCA.

  • Henry Purcell

    What pow'r art thou (King Arthur)

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell - King Arthur.
    • ERATO.
    • 18.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Orchestra Fireworks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in D major, Op.23 no.4

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major RV.253 'La Tempesta di Mare'

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.

  • Susanne Rosenberg

    Pust

    Conductor: Maria Goundorina. Choir: Allmänna Sången.
    • Femina moderna.
    • BIS.
    • 1201.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes (Air pour les sauvages & Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: Orchestra of the 18th Century/Bruggen.
    • Philips.
    • 21-22.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (Fidelio)

    Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Decca.

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