
Tom McKinney
@tom_mckinney
Breakfast @BBCRadio3. Weekdays from 6.30am. I'm here for birds, music & beautiful places.
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23-01-2009 07:49:43
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A special edition of Friday Night is Music Night BBC Radio 3 tonight, as Tom McKinney returns to the city he grew up in. Treats galore from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Elizabeth Watts Ilker Arcayürek James Atkinson and Jonathan Bloxham: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…


Huge congratulations to the brilliant Danish String Quartet, at one time BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, last night awarded the Léonie Sonning Léonie Sonning Music Foundation Prize. Great stuff! You can hear them in Friday's Breakfast along with a dawn chorus from the world's smallest songbird


A new week of Breakfast BBC Radio 3. And there's two recent albums - Ruth Gipps' brilliant 5th Symphony and Chopin from always amazing Benjamin Grosvenor. Plus Elin Manahan Thomas singing Monteverdi, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and the dawn chorus was a Whinchat





Good morning! Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 started with an Olive Tree Warbler. On the way - Chineke Orchestra in music by Coleridge-Taylor, there's Haydn from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and brilliant recordings with Europa Galante & Royal Scottish National Orchestra ☕️🍳🥐


Friday's Breakfast BBC Radio 3 is live! It started with an Ancient Murrelet in Alaska for the dawn chorus. Bach Before 7 is a recording from legendary organist Helmut Walcha, there's a new album of Jessica Curry's music, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir of Florence & Mozart's Paris Symphony


What a week… #HansAbrahamsen 💿 recording MKO ECM Records, contract extension announcement and rehearsals BBC Philharmonic Orchestra MediaCityUK culminating in #Mahler3 as season finale tonight Jess Dandy Hallé Choir CBSO youth choruses The Bridgewater Hall BBC Radio 3 🎶🙏


We're live from 6.30 with Monday's Breakfast BBC Radio 3. Daniel Barenboim playing a pocket-sized piano sonata by Beethoven, Vivaldi with violinist Nicola Benedetti, and new albums from tenor Haitham Haidar & Orchestra of the Swan. And the dawn chorus is a Great Northern Diver


Out for a late walk this morning, watching the beauty of the red kite as it glides in the morning sky. #Shropshire Tom McKinney #Nature

Nature's poetry unfolds. Discover our new film series showcasing the South West's stunning landscapes. Through poetry and film, see how our Protected Site Strategies and University of Exeter's RENEW project are working to help biodiversity flourish. Link to full video in thread.


give yourself a richly satisfying two-and-a-half minutes and transport yourself to Kynance Cove on the Lizard Peninsula. A treat for the eyes - and great to see a hungry chough getting lunch. One for Tom McKinney @bbcradio3


At 1pm today, in a change to our advertised programming, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts one of Alfred Brendel’s final recitals — recorded at Snape Maltings in 2008, and linking four of the composers closest to him across his six-decade career: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…



🎶 Exciting News! 🎶 Today NCEM, BBC Radio 3 & @RCMLondonannounced Bellot Ensemble as the 2025-27 #NewGenerationBaroqueEnsemble. Specialising in 17th century repertoire, they will receive expert advice, mentoring, plus performances, recording opportunities & BBC Radio 3 broadcasts


Already really warm at 5.30am. The Salford sunflowers are loving it. Breakfast BBC Radio 3 is live till 9.30. The dawn chorus was an Eastern Meadowlark in the US of A, Bach Before 7 is from his 1st Orchestral Suite, and there's a hot wind blowing in a song by Monteverdi. 🌻🌻🌻
