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Your perfect classical playlist

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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Music Played

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 etc..
    • Warner Classics.
    • 109.

  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Surge amica mea

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

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Sinfonietta

    • Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite (Aubade)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Raphael Christ. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Simone Jandl. Performer: Behran Rassekhi. Performer: Mario Brunello. Performer: Enrico Bronzi. Performer: BenoĂźt Grenet. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra Mozart, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Blue Air (Colour Suite)

    Performer: Leigh Kaplan.
    • Cambria.

  • Alexis Alrich

    Marimba Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Conductor: Jean Thorel.
    • Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: TakĂĄcs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Isaac AlbĂ©niz

    España arr for guitar (Zortzico)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    The Last Waltz

    Performer: VĂ©ronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • Alpha.

  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture-Suite in E major (Overture)

    Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Director: Elizabeth Wallfisch.
    • Telemann: Complete violin concertos vol.4: L'Orfeo Barockorchester/Wallfisch.
    • CPO.
    • 7.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op 29 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Judith Pearce. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Brian Wightman. Performer: John Pigneguy. Performer: Roger Chase. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • The Chamber Music of Malcolm Arnold, The Nash Ensemble, Judith Pearce....
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Ave Maria, S. 558 (after Schubert, D. 839)

    • Liszt: Ave Maria, S. 558 (after Schubert, D. 839).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gabriel FaurĂ©

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

    Performer: Katia LabĂšque. Performer: Marielle LabĂšque.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Songs of the Auvergne: Brezairola

    Singer: Victoria de los Ángeles. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Jean‐Pierre Jacquillat.
    • EMI.

  • Robert Schumann

    TrÀumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • VĂ­kingur Ólafsson - From Afar.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.94 in G major 'Surprise' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Haydn: The 12 London Symphonies: LPO, Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.

  • David Raksin

    Theme from 'Laura'

    • Hollywood Soundstage.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Amanda Lee Falkenberg

    The Moons Symphony: VII. Earth Moon Earthrise - The Overview

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise Op.34`14

    Performer: Truls Mþrk. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky: Cello & Piano Works: Mork, Thibaudet.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.

  • 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.

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