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The best classical morning music

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 27 Jun 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.14

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • JosĂ© MaurĂ­cio Nunes Garcia

    Missa pastoril para a noite de natal - Kyrie and Gloria

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Baroque Ensemble. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Brazilian Adventures.
    • Hyperion Records.
    • 1.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata in B flat (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Berlin. Performer: Benjamin Martin.
    • French Cello Sonatas.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 7.
  • Franco Alfano

    Echi dell'appennino (Suite romantica)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. Conductor: Giuseppe Grazioli.
    • Alfano: Suite romantica, Una danza & Divertimento.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315, 'Summer'

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Jerry Goldsmith

    Ilia's Theme (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Jerry Goldsmith.
    • Music from the Original Soundtrack: Star Trek the Motion Picture.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Beethoven and Berwald: Septets.
    • BIS.
    • 106.
  • Maddalena Casulana

    Il desiderio: No. 3, Morir non puĂČ il mio cuore

    Ensemble: Singer Pur.
    • Among Whirlwinds.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 1.
  • Maddalena Casulana

    Il vostro dispartir (arr. C. Matthews)

    Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: KodĂĄly Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Music for My Love: Celebrating the Life of a Special Woman, Vol. 1.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A, D664 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 22.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas Brasilierias No.5 (Aria)

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Orchestra: WĂŒrttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Ruben Gazarian.
    • Berlin Classics 0300909BC.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint‐SaĂ«ns

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Saint-SaĂ«ns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 36.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy, Op.16 (Serenade)

    Performer: Lise Berthaud. Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Berlioz: Harold en Italie.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Ich hab' in penna (Italian Songbook)

    Performer: Irwin Gage. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch.
    • Globe.
    • 46.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Symphonie sur un chant montagnard, 'Cévenole' Op.25 : III Animé

    Conductor: Marek Janowski. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.
    • D'Indy : Jour d'Ă©tĂ© Ă  la montagne & Symphonie sur un chant montagnard, 'CĂ©venole.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 6.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in E major Op.2`10

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Undine Smith Moore

    Afro-American Suite: III. Adagio ma appassionato

    Ensemble: Mallarmé Chamber Players.
    • Songs for the Soul.
    • Albany Records.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    Cuban Overture

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Te Deum, Op.103, B.176

    Conductor: Jakub HrĆŻĆĄa. Singer: Kateƙina KnÄ›ĆŸĂ­kovĂĄ. Singer: Svatopluk Sem. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Decca.
  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

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

    Humoresque No.5 in E flat major

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Thomas SÞndergÄrd.
    • Prokofiev & Sibelius - Violin Concertos.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    By the side of the Shannon

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 5.
  • Anon.

    Nuttmigs and ginger

    Ensemble: The Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K271 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Jun 2024 09:30

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