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Classical soundtrack for your morning

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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

Fri 31 May 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Valse (Faust)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barcarole - Favourite Orchestral Pieces.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in E Major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith"

    Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams.
    • English Guitar Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70

    Performer: David Pyatt. Performer: Martin Jones.
    • David Pyatt Recital / Schumann.
    • Erato.
    • 14-15.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La finta giardiniera (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 8-10.
  • Josef Strauss

    The Dragonfly Op.204

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 9 in E minor Op 95 'From the New World' - iii) Scherzo

    Performer: Jakub Hr暖拧a. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • TUDOR.
  • Johann Adolf Hasse

    Mandolin Concerto in G major Op.3 no.11

    Performer: Anna Torge. Orchestra: Il cantino. Director: Mayumi Hirasaki.
    • CPO.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio in B flat major Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro. Performer: Pascal Moragu猫s. Performer: Adrian Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38.
    • Paraty.
    • 103.
  • Anthony Holborne

    Muy Linda

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • BIS.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Simple Song [Mass]

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Delfs.
    • Sacred Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major, 'The Clock' (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Ensemble: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Michael Abels

    Winged Creatures

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Allen Tinkham.
    • Winged Creatures.
    • Cedille.
    • 101.
  • William Bolcom

    3 Ghost Rags: No. 1, Graceful Ghost Rag

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Bolcom: The Complete Rags.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cum dederit dilectis (Nisi Dominus, RV 608)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Dyer.
  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    Intermezzo no.2 (Suite 'The Jewels of the Madonna')

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Christine Messiter. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures & Intermezzi: Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marrine.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Sch枚n Rosmarin - Ballet "The Dragonfly"

    Conductor: Richard Bonynge. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Homage To Pavlova.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon (The House of Life)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • NAXOS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance from the Gadfly

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Cinema.
    • Sony.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in B major, Op 28 No 11

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 11.
  • Frederick Delius

    Summer night on the river RT.6.19

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Traditional

    Rolig Pers Polska

    Music Arranger: Hans Ek. Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Charles Ives

    The Alcotts - third movement of Concord Sonata (Piano Sonata No 2)

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Jeremy Denk Plays Ives.
    • THINK DENK MEDIA.
    • 10.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Celebration for Orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Eric Whitacre

    A Boy and a Girl

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (Prelude and Fugue no.1 in C Major BWV.846 - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Le Po猫te du piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Fantasia para un Gentilhombre

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.
  • Anton Rubinstein

    3 Morceaux, Op. 16: No. 3, S茅r茅nade

    • Anton Rubinstein: Piano Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Philippe Sarde

    La chanson d'Helene (From "Les choses de la vie")

    • Les choses de la vie - Cinema 2.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • Mieczyslaw Karlowicz

    Valse (Serenade for strings, Op 2)

    Orchestra: Orkiestra Polskiego Radia w Krakowie. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Chant du Monde.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in F major, Op.33 no.3

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 11.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Te Deum laudamus (Morning, communion and evening services, Op.10)

    Singer: Ingrid Attrot. Singer: Pamela Helen Stephen. Singer: Nigel Robson. Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Choir: Leeds Philharmonic Chorus. Performer: Darius Battiwalla. Performer: Ian Watson. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Stanford: Stabat Mater etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

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  • Fri 31 May 2024 09:30

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