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Great classical music for your morning

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.

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

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

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

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 2 Nov 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Hélène (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Offenbach: Overtures: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Autumn (6 Études de concert- book 1 Op.35)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 013.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209: Sinfonia

    Performer: Kiyomi Suga. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 7.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Gordon Langford

    Rhapsody on Sea Shanties

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Morning Cloud: Black Dyke Mills Band/Newsome/Heath.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata: Act I: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Tiziana Fabbricini. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan.
    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nuages (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: 4th mvt - Allegro assai

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Toccata in C sharp minor

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Serenata, P. 54

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of New York. Conductor: Salvatore Di Vittorio.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jan Waterfield. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Anima Eterna Brugge. Director: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Le Carnival Romain: Anima Eterna Brugge.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Am Tage Aller Seelen, D. 343

    Music Arranger: Max Reger. Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Oscar Jockel.
    • Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 122.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony no. 2 in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Gounod: Symphonies 1 & 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.
  • Gilbert Vinter

    Hunter's Moon

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Pyatt/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D Minor Kk.1

    Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • SONY.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (No 4, Storm)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.
  • George Harrison

    Here comes the sun

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Christopher Austin. Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Mercury.
  • Terry Riley

    A Rainbow in the Curved Air (Instrumental) - Extract

    Performer: Terry Riley.
    • Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air & Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Cloud Capp'd Towers (Three Shakespeare Songs)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Nigel Short.
    • Signum Classics : SIGCD904.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.
  • Django Reinhardt

    Nuages

    Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Django Reinhardt.
    • Django & Grappelli - The Stomping 1940s.
    • Music Today Records.
    • 13.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons Recomposed : Autumn

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Ensemble: Covent Garden Sinfonia. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Rubicon.
  • Frank Bridge

    Threads (Intermezzo No 2)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol.5: Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations - Vars 16-20

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anthony Holborne

    Muy Linda

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • BIS.
  • William Grant Still

    Wood Notes: III. Moon Dusk: Slowly and expressively

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Julie Cooper

    Contemplation Suite: III. Dusk

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Singer: Grace Davidson. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.
    • Julie Cooper: Continuum.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Marin Marais

    La bagatelle (Suite no 1 in C major, Pièces en trio, 1692)

    Performer: William Hunt. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • Marin Marais 'La folia' & other music for viols and violins The Purcell Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Elgar: City of London Sinfonia/Hickox.
    • EMI.
    • 10.

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