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Classical soundtrack for your morning

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

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Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Copland Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Symphony No 9 in E minor 'From the New World' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ANTONIN DVORAK Symphonie Nr. 9 'Aus der Neuen Welt' Heldenlied, op.111.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 2.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado (Spanish Dances Op.23)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.
    • 11.

  • John Sheppard

    Libera nos

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance: Music for inner peace.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 16.

  • Jan VĂĄclav Hugo Voƙíơek

    Symphony in D Major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Voƙíơek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Matthew Locke

    The Tempest: Curtain Tune

    Orchestra: Vox Orchester. Conductor: Lorenzo Ghirlanda.
    • Purcell & Locke: Orchestral Works.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 16.

  • Morton Gould

    Boogie Woogie Etude

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C, Op 20 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlesienne Suite no.2)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto No 1 in D Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus MÀkelÀ.
    • Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1.
    • DECCA.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 No 3

    Performer: Kian Soltani. Performer: Aaron Pilsan.
    • ±«Óătv.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Schlafendes Jesuskind (Mörike-Lieder)

    Singer: Juliane Banse. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Wolf: Prometheus.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Traditional Albanian

    Kenga e Krushqve

    Performer: Steven McIntyre. Music Arranger: James MacMillan.
    • LINN.

  • James MacMillan

    Lassie, wad ye loe me?

    Choir: Elysian Singers. Conductor: Sam Laughton.
    • MacMillan: One Equal Music.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op.77 (La caprice de Nannette)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction & Allegro

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades Op.10 (no.1 in D minor 'Edward')

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • Brahms: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune

    Performer: Arcangelo. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Enchanted Forest.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 007.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Saint Nicolas: VI. He Journeys to Palestine

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: Holst Singers. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Choir: Boys of the Temple Church Choir. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Britten: A Ceremony of Carols & St Nicolas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in F Major, RV 433 "La tempesta di mare" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Vivaldi : Concerti da Camera Vol. 1 (DAW 50).
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 01.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Saul (O Lord, whose mercies numberless)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Handel: Saul.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 24.

  • Karl Davydov

    At the Fountain, Op.20 no.2

    Performer: Leonid Gorokhov. Performer: Colin Stone.
    • Olympia.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Ruud.
    • BIS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony (1st mvt)

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Jonathan Summers. Choir: Cantilena. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522: IV. Presto

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.

  • Frank Martin

    Mass for double choir (Gloria)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • Martin: Mass For Double Choir etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Antoine Forqueray

    La Portugaise (Suite no.1 in D minor)

    Music Arranger: Jean-Baptiste Forqueray. Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 8.

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