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Refresh your morning with classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

Mon 1 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in E flat major BWV.243a (Magnificat anima mea)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Linn.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.
  • Daniel François Esprit Auber

    La muette de Portici: Overture

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • DIVOX.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Roger Quilter

    Country Dance

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • Finger Prints.
    • EM RECORDS.
    • 16.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Alto Saxophone Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Harle. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Saxophone Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.
  • Wiliam Brade

    Ein Schottisch Tanz

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The House of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Owain Park)

    Lyricist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Singer: Andrew Staples. Orchestra: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Vaughan Williams: Retrospect.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 14.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major for 3 Trumpets TWV54:D3

    Performer: HĂĄkan Hardenberger. Performer: Michael Laird. Performer: William Houghton. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • Philips.
  • Pawel Lukaszewski

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Choral music by Pawel Lukaszewski.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, Op. Posth. 166, D. 803: III. Allegro vivace

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Schubert: Octet in F Major, Op. Posth. 166, D. 803.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture Op.81

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Frank Merrick

    Suite in the 18th Century Style; 6. Bourees 1 & 2

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • British Solo Cello Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 27.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Morning Papers, Op 279

    Orchestra: Southern Europe Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alfred Scholz.
    • 100 Classical String Moments.
    • Classical Masters.
    • 78.
  • BĂ©la BartĂłk

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Rutland Boughton

    Three Folk Dances for orchestra (Culloden)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • R. Boughton: Aylesbury Games etc: Beynon/New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Richard Rodgers

    South Pacific; There Is Nothin' Like a Dame

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Choir: South Pacific Ensemble. Orchestra: South Pacific Original Broadway Cast. Conductor: Salvatore Dell’Isola.
    • South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major

    Orchestra: The Women’s Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Koch.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Farewell to Stromness.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: Václav Luks.
    • Accent.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rachmaninov Piano Concertos - Leif Ove Andsnes - Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Lieder und Gesange, Book 1. No. 2. Erinnerung

    Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Isaac AlbĂ©niz

    Iberia, Book 4; No. 10, Málaga

    • The Vienna Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Air (Water Music - Suite in F major, HWV 348)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel Edition Volume 9 - Orchestral Music.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 92.
  • Eric Coates

    Footlights - Concert Waltz

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 4.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Romanza Andaluza, Op 22 No 1

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Performer: Daniel Gortler.
    • Bravo! Virtuoso & Romantic Violin Encores.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.

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  • Mon 1 Jul 2024 09:30

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