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A feast of great music

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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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269, 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Vivaldi: Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Slavonic Dance No. 9 in B major, Op 72 No 1

    Music Arranger: Patrick Clements. Ensemble: Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • COE RECORDS.

  • Gustav Holst

    Capriccio

    Music Arranger: Imogen Holst. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Egdon Heath, Hammersmith etc.: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G BWV1049: 1st movement; Allegro

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf Op.67 ( Peter; The bird; The duck; The cat)

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej LenĂĄrd.
    • Prokoiev Peter and the Wolf Instrumental The Classics.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F major, K 370

    Performer: Pierre Pierlot. Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Max Lesueur. Performer: JĂĄnos Scholz.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    The Damnation of Faust (Hungarian March)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Classic Marches: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Slatkin.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Deh, come invan sospiro (No. 9, Madrigali libro sesto, 1611)

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali.
    • Winter & Winter.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music suite in D, HWV.349

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Water Music: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra/McGegan.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance, Op 39

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

  • Hugo Wolf

    Intermezzo in E flat major for string quartet

    Ensemble: Auryn Quartet.
    • CPO.

  • John Barry

    Dances with Wolves

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Moviola.
    • Epic Soundtrax.
    • 7.

  • Camille Saint‐SaĂ«ns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • The Cello in Wartime.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Leos Janáček

    The Cunning Little Vixen Suite (2nd mvt)

    Orchestrator: Václav Talich. Music Arranger: Václav Smetáček. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiƙí Bělohlávek.
    • Janacek: Various.
    • Chandos.
    • 3-4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Marche Ă©cossaise sur un thĂšme populaire

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Debussy and Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    Prelude & Fugue for piano in C major

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Smyth: Complete Piano Works - Serbescu.
    • CPO.
    • 007.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Janezic. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

  • Valerie Coleman

    Concerto for Wind Quintet (1st mvmt, Afro)

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • Koch International Classics.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Music Arranger: Lucas Drew. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repuơić.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Works.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.

  • Giuseppe Tamplini

    Fantasia on themes from Donizetti's Don Pasquale

    Performer: Kim Walker. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • REGENT.

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