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Great classical music for your morning

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

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

0930 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 14 Sep 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sullivan: Overtures.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4.
    • Ondine.
    • 3.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n No. 5 "Portales de Madrugada"

    Ensemble: Aero saxophone quartet.
    • Aero Quartet.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 105.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Serenade Op.37

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov.
    • Trip to Russia.
    • Orfeo.
    • 601.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    On the Quay of the Port of Famagusta (from incidental music to La pisanella)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • Decca.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.
  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro Op.47

    Ensemble: LSO String Ensemble. Conductor: Roman Simovi膰.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 6.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La boutique fantasque (Galop)

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 8.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otono porte帽o

    Performer: Alfredo Marcucci. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Orfeo.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde (Ballet Music in G major)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • Anonymous

    Marinero soy de amor

    Performer: Ferran Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'ocean (Miroirs)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • ERATO.
  • Franz Schreker

    Festival Waltz and Waltz Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Bochumer Symphoniker. Conductor: Steven Sloane.
    • Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • CPO.
    • 5.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello, Act I: Act I: Una vela! (Chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)

    Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Orchestra: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Verdi: Otello (Live).
    • Orfeo.
    • 101.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cos矛 fan tutte)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Escales: II. Tunis-Nefta

    Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • Orchestral Study Music.
    • Silent Star Music.
    • 7.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 5; No 7 Limoges, the market place

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ronald Corp

    Guernsey Postcards: III. St Peter Port

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Ronald Corp: Guernsey Postcards, Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 1.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 3.
  • Julius Fucik

    Florentiner-Marsch, Op.214

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • A Festival of Fucik.
    • Chandos.
    • 012.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.2 in C major

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for piano and strings no. 1 (Op.8) in B major, 2nd movement; Scherzo. Allegro molto

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on.
    • Brahms: Trios for Violin, Cello & Piano: Renaud & Gautier Capucon, Nicholas Ange.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Max Richter

    Journey [CP1919]

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano: I. Allegro calmato

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Michael Collins Plays British Clarinet Sonatas, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Cantabile, Op 17

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: John Williams.
    • The Essential Itzhak Perlman.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Douglas Lilburn

    Aotearoa

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Lilburn: Orchestral Works: James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

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