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Refresh your morning with classical music

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

Fri 19 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: Espana: Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi caritas

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Ubi Caritas.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor Op.70

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Saint Saens: Concertos 2 & 5; Solo Piano Works.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.2 in G major, Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • To the Spring.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 303.
  • Louis Clapisson

    Le Code noir, Act III: "Non, vous n'aurez pas... Adieu, toi ma pauvre m猫re"

    Lyricist: Eug猫ne Scribe. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille.
    • So Romantique !.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 17.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Barcarolle in D flat major, Op.96

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Horn Concerto in D major TWV.51:D8

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos.
    • Bis.
    • 4-6.
  • Nainita Desai

    My Mind is Still

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Elsa Bradley. Performer: Leif Kaner鈥怢idstr枚m. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

    Ensemble: Trio Ernest.
    • Aparte.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zerreisset, zersprenget, zertr眉mmert die Gruft (Cantata BWV.205)

    Choir: Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • J. S. Bach, Secular Cantatas BWV.205 & 214.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade Op.35 (The Young Prince and Princess)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quintet No. 4 in D Major G 448 IV. Fandango

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Sony.
  • Henri Duparc

    L'invitation au voyage

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Lyricist: Charles Baudelaire. Singer: V茅ronique Gens.
    • 狈茅猫谤别.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Zinman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia Book 1 (F锚te-Dieu 脿 Seville)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Thea Musgrave

    The Seasons (Summer)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • NMC.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance a Cachucha (The Gondoliers)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • The Gondoliers.
    • That鈥檚 Entertainment.
    • 5.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Barcarolle (Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Singer: Anne Murray. Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de l'Opera.
    • EMI.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater in F minor (opening)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Christopher Lowrey. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • PERGOLESI - Stabat Mater.
    • ALPHA.
    • 1.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER.
  • David Breslin

    Verdandi

    Composer: Kerry Andrew. Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Snow Queens.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 02.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for Cello and Piano - No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor

    Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • "Dear Mademoiselle": A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Fratres (1982 Version for Cello Ensemble)

    Performer: Franz Schindelbeck. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • 50 x 12: Half a Century of Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 22.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival of the Animals, R. 125 - No. 7 Aquarium

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Antonio Pasculli

    Grand concerto on themes from Donizetti's 'La Favorita'

    Performer: Burkhard Glaetzner. Conductor: Claus Peter Flor. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
    • Capriccio.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danses espagnoles 'La vida breve' arr Samazeuilj

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Music Arranger: Gustave Samazeuilh.
    • Piano Fantasy/Music for two pianos: Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 1-2.
  • Richard Rodgers

    You'll never walk alone (from Carousel)

    Orchestrator: Edward Benson Powell. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies.
    • EMI.
    • 007.

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