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Refresh your morning with classical music

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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 15 Feb 2024 09:00
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Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles for clarinet & piano, Op.23)

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: James Cryer.
    • The English Clarinet.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Zoroastre Suite (Overture)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Rameau: L'Orchestre de Louis XV. Suites d'Orchestre: Le Concert Des Nations/Sava.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 25.

  • Vincenzo Galilei

    Saltarello sesto

    Performer: Andrea Damiani.
    • STRADIVARIUS.

  • Gustav Holst

    Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.

  • Amy Beach

    Honeysuckle (From Grandmother's Garden, Op 97)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • LuΓ­s de Freitas Branco

    Suite Alentejana No.2 for orchestra (3rd movement: Final)

    Orchestra: RTΓ‰ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto.
    • Naxos.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1 Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, Jubilate K.165

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Piano Concerto in E major (2nd mvt: Danse - Vif)

    Performer: William Youn. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Valentin Uryupin.
    • Sony.

  • Augusta HolmΓ¨s

    Roland furieux: Opening movement

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Valentina Peleggi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in D major for four hands, Op 6

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Performer: Hélène Mercier.
    • Chandos.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 2.

  • Oswald von Wolkenstein

    Nu rue mit sorgen

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Kathleen Dineen. Ensemble: Shield of Harmony. Director: Crawford Young.
    • Wolkenstein, Songs of Myself: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.

  • George Walker

    Concerto for trombone and orchestra: 3rd mvt; Allegro

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: MalmΓΆ SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • BIS.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture Suite in G minor, TWV.55:g2 "La Changeante" (Overture)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsodie in E flat major, Op.119 No.4

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Haydn, Brahms, Lachenmann, Schubert: Lars Vogt.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.

  • Francisco TΓ‘rrega

    Capricho Arabe

    Performer: Miloő Karadaglić.
    • Milos: The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.

  • Joly Braga Santos

    Alfama Suite: IX. Final dance (Arr. A. Cassuto)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto.
    • Braga Santos: Alfama.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Chet Atkins

    April in Portugal

    • Guitar Genius - Chet Atkins, Vol. 4.
    • Documents 2.
    • 7.

  • Manuel Cardoso

    Sitivit anima mea - motet for 6 voices

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance Portugal.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Overture: L'Africaine

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Naxos.

  • Carlos de Seixas

    Toccata No. 8

    Performer: David Gordon. Performer: Ε½ak Ozmo.
    • 18th-century Portuguese Love Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No.2 in D major, H.VIIb:2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Pieter Wispelwey. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Nino Rota

    Toccata for bassoon and piano

    Performer: Michael Sweeney. Performer: Mary Kenedi.
    • Nino Rota - Clarinet Sonata, Clarinet Trio, Fantasia.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    La Ronde des lutins, Op.25

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores.
    • Chandos.
    • 19.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance for violin & orchestra, Op.39

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abendlied

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • A Choral Tapestry.
    • Signum.
    • 16.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 in A major, Op.90, 'Italian' (4th mvt: Saltarello)

    Conductor: Frans BrΓΌggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • Philips.

  • Florence Price

    Toccato [Organ Suite No.1]

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • GAMUT CLASSICS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in F major, HWV 348, 'Water Music' (Overture)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DaCapo.

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  • Thu 15 Feb 2024 09:00
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