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Classical soundtrack for your morning

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

Tue 30 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matin茅es musicales, Op 24 (No 3, Waltz)

    Composer: Gioachino Rossini. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes 茅tudes de Paganini, No 3 in G sharp minor)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Entr茅e de Polimnie (Les Bor茅ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (2nd mvmt, Lively)

    Ensemble: Continuum Ensemble. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • AVIE.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend in F major, Op 59 No 8

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • ELOQUENCE.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Pilgrimage To Santiago.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 17.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    The Quayside at the Port of Famagusta (La Pisanelle - Suite)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • Decca.
  • Tekla B膮darzewska

    The Maiden's Prayer

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Piano Book.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 19.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Mozart: Overtures/Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Adagio (No 5 of 5 Songs of Bo Bergman, Op 20)

    Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • Barbara Bonney - Diamonds In The Snow.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 20.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (2nd mvmt, Lively)

    Ensemble: Continuum Ensemble. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • AVIE.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Concerto in C major, RV 447 (1st mvmt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: New Seasons Ensemble.
    • Decca.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Overture: Jason, or The Argonauts and the Sirens

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante d茅funte

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Pavane - Ravel, Satie & Faure: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (2nd mvmt, Lively)

    Ensemble: Continuum Ensemble. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • AVIE.
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.
  • Charles Ives

    Runaway horse on Main Street

    Conductor: Colonel Timothy W. Foley.
    • Charles Ives' America.
    • Altissimo!.
    • 19.
  • John Rutter

    Windy Nights (No 3 of 5 Childhood Lyrics)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.
  • Franz Waxman

    Taras Bulba (The Ride of the Cossacks)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • The Genius of Film Music: Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s鈥1980s.
    • LPO.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons (April - Snowdrop)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons; 18 Morceaux; Aveu Passion茅 in E minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 3 No 1 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Zefira Valova. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • Benda, Graun, Saint-Georges, Sirmen: Violin Concertos.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73 (2nd mvmt, Adagio ma non troppo)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Peter Ruzicka.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 - Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 - Widmann: Dr.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    La quaglia (The Quail)

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances, Op 64 (No 3, Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Matt Carmichael & Fergus McCreadie

    Marram

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 2 in D major (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Pieter Wispelwey. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Hymn of Jesus

    Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Choir: Hall茅 Youth Choir. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Holst: The Hymn of Jesus - Delius: Sea Drift, Cynara.
    • Hall茅 Concerts Society.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 4 in D minor (4th mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 鈥 William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Die Lotosblume (No 7 of Myrthen, Op 25)

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
    • A Gardener's World.
    • Rubicon.
    • 3.
  • Clara Schumann

    Das Veilchen

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
    • A Gardener's World.
    • Rubicon.
    • 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Toccata; Gavotta con due variazioni (Pulcinella)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 3.
    • LPO.
    • 116.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Prelude: Les Chasseresses (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Chopin/Delibes: Ballet favourites: Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy.
    • CBS.
    • 2.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in F major, Op 5 No 4 (1st mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • John Adams

    On the Dominant Divide (Grand Pianola Music)

    Performer: Alan Feinberg. Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Solisti New York. Performer: Ransom Wilson.
    • EMI.

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  • Tue 30 Apr 2024 09:30

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