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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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Mon 13 Feb 2023 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle no.3 in G flat major Op.42

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite from Dardanus (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet Volume 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • David Lang

    Light Moving

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    Little Serenade, Op.12

    Ensemble: Musica Vitae. Conductor: Wojciech Rajski.
    • Nordic Music Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 5-8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Waltz)

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.4 in G major BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Michala Petri. Performer: Nikola Tarasov. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra Mozart, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrés Orozco‐Estrada.
    • RCA.

  • Anon.

    Vindarna Sucka Uti Skogarna

    Music Arranger: Bill Evans. Singer: Monica Zetterlund. Ensemble: Bill Evans Trio.
    • Waltz For Debby.
    • Universal Music.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric pieces - book 3 Op.43 for piano: Butterfly / Little Bird / To the spring

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Nightclub 1960 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Piazzolla for Two - Tangos for Flute & Guitar: Patrick Gallois, Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Catalonia

    Orchestra: Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • ASV.

  • The Divine Comedy

    Philip and Steve's furniture removal company

    • Divine Comedy Records Ltd.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cinque, dieci (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Cecilia & Bryn.
    • Decca.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mouvement perpetuel no.3

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Poulenc Les Soirees De Nazelles 3 Mouvments Perpetuels 3 Novlettes 9 Improvisati.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Taxi Driver (Main Title)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.
    • ARISTA.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    One Table, One Chair

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.

  • Charles Ives

    Over the Pavements

    Ensemble: Ensemble Modern. Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher.
    • A Portrait of Charles Ives.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat major Op.20 (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Reicha: Grande symphonie de salon - Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20.
    • Aparté.
    • 110.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Phaeton Op.39

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.20 no.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Helmer Alexandersson

    Symphony no.2 in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Uppsala Kammarorkester. Conductor: Paul Mägi.
    • Sterling.

  • Tunde Jegede

    Still Moment

    Performer: Tunde Jegede.
    • Still Moment.
    • Hetra Music.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik D.547

    Music Arranger: Max Reger. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra: Von Otter, Quasthoff, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Serenata in E flat major

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

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    3 Spirituals

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

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