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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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Mon 24 Jul 2023 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Di Provenza il mar (La Traviata)

    Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.

  • Paul Desmond

    Take Five

    Ensemble: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • JAZZ WORLD.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Ornamental Air (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • Mozart/Copland/Kats-Chernin: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Sicut lilium inter spinas

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: Berlin Philharmoniker, Ferenc Fricsay.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major HWV.295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira no.5)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Solo E Pensoso.
    • Alpha.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La vallée des cloches (Miroirs)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Tom Gamble

    Coffee and Whisky

    Performer: Tom Gamble.
    • Howler Monkey Records 2022.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mars, the Bringer of War (The Planets, Op 32)

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst: Planets: Suite for Orchestra, Op. 32 (1916).
    • I.M.P. Classics.
    • 1.

  • Jerome Jerry Bresler

    Five guys named Moe

    Composer: Larry Wynn. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Ensemble: Harvey & the Wallbangers.
    • Harvey and the Wallbangers. Early Days.
    • Gott.
    • 01.

  • Jerome Moross

    Five Finger Exercise; Romanza

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • FILMCD161.

  • Robert Johnson

    Full fathom five

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Robin Blaze.
    • English Lute Songs.
    • Helios.
    • 1.

  • Lalo Schifrin

    Mission: Impossible "Main Title"

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • The Best of Mission: Impossible (Then and Now).
    • GNP Crescendo Record Co., Inc..
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Alla marcia)

    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia etc: Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D 899 No 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Celebration for Orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Silentio Nocivo

    Choir: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón.
    • Ambronay.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite no.1 for jazz band

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Round)

    Ensemble: London Collegiate Brass. Conductor: James Stobart.
    • Walton/Tippett/Britten/Ireland: London Collegiate Brass/Stobart.
    • CRD.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Performer: John Thiessen. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Trumpet Music: Steele-Perkins, Taflemusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9-11.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Jul 2023 09:00
    BBC Radio 3

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