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Refresh your morning with classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 29 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Wedding-Cake - Caprice-Waltz in A flat major Op.76

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS : CHSA 5162.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 20.
  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • John Tavener: Song for Athene, Svyati.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Michael Torke

    Green

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Argo.
  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude No 38 in A Minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult: 脡tudes.
    • BIS.
    • 107.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne [Danse]

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Edward Elgar

    Carissima

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics - 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major Op.103 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: London Baroque Ensemble. Conductor: Karl Haas.
    • Beethoven: Wind Music: London Baroque/Haas.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, 'American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D. 343

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in C major, Op 24 No 2

    Performer: Vlado Perlemuter.
    • Vlado Perlemuter - Chopin.
    • Nimbus.
    • 8.
  • Ester M盲gi

    Bukoolika

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arvo Volmer.
    • Magi: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Fetes (Nocturnes),Transcr. Ravel

    • en blanc et noir - The Debussy Album.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Athanasius Kircher

    Tarantella napoletana

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella - Antidotum Tarantulae.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Music for children, Op.65: Tarantella; Procession of Grasshoppers; Catch me if you can

    Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • ONDINE.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Stabat Mater a 8

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Widerstehe doch der S眉nde (Cantata BWV.54)

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    The Little Train of the Caipira (Bachianas Brasileira no.2)

    Orchestra: Morton Gould and His Orchestra.
    • The Golden Age of Light Music: A Glorious Century of Light Music.
    • Guild Music.
    • 10.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet Movement in A minor

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Paul Neubauer. Performer: David Finckel. Performer: Wu Han.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479 4609.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 001.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609

    Singer: Joowon Chung. Singer: Hanna Herfurtner. Choir: Salzburger Bachchor. Ensemble: Bach Consort Wien. Conductor: Rub茅n Dubrovsky.
    • Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Gloria & Other Works (Live).
    • Gramola Records.
    • 18.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta, Op. 60, JW VI/18

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO Live.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in F major K.616

    Music Arranger: Michael Hasel. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 8.
  • Muriel Herbert

    Violets

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
    • A Gardener's World.
    • Rubicon.
    • 20.
  • Muriel Herbert

    To Daffodils

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
    • A Gardener's World.
    • Rubicon.
    • 21.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die no.1 in D major

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • Satie & comagnie: Anne Queffelec.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Jota aragonesa (Capriccio brillante)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 13.
  • Grigoras Dinicu

    Hora staccato

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Victor Koptchinsky.
    • Rapsodia: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
    • Naive.
    • 18.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • The Spirit of England.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 4.

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  • Mon 29 Apr 2024 09:30

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