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Great classical music for your morning

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

Georgia Mann 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.

1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 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

Wed 19 Jun 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes etudes de Paganini)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Gavotte 1 and 2)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach - The Orchestral Suites.
    • ACCENT.
    • 10.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade in C Major for Strings (Op.48): 1. Pezzo in forma di sonatina

    Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • SONY.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Cloudburst

    Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Stephen Betteridge. Performer: Robert Millett. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etude Op 25 No 11 'Winter Wind'

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.6 in C major D.589 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 203.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfahrt, BuxWV 76: II. Klage lied

    Performer: Rachel Byrt. Performer: Clare Salaman. Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: William Hunt. Singer: Michael Chance. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • Purcell Quartet Plays German Sacred Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • COLBURN.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Castilla (Seguidillas)

    Music Arranger: Miguel Llobet Sol茅s. Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • Julian Bream & John Williams Live.
    • RCA.
    • 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works including Symphony no.3, The Wasps Overture,.
    • HALLE.
    • 7.
  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral'; 4. Storm

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • EMI.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Clouds (Piano Pieces for Children)

    • Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • CRD Records.
    • 5.
  • Edward Elgar

    As Torrents in Summer (Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf)

    Choir: Cambridge University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Philip Glass

    Music from the film "Koyaanisqatsi"; Cloudscape

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Glass.
    • Koyaanisqatsi (Original Soundtrack Album From The Film).
    • Island Records.
    • 3.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D major, Op.7 No.6

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Boisterous Bourr茅e)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev/Bizet/Britten: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Recorder and 2 Violins in A minor RV.108

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music fromt the Italian States.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B-Flat Major, K. 287 "Zweite Lodronische Nachtmusik": IV. Adagio

    Ensemble: Les Folies Fran莽oises. Conductor: Patrick Coh毛n-Akenine.
    • Mozart: Nachtmusik....
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 74

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Weber: Concertante Works for Clarinet and Horn: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 11-13.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Do You Hear Us In Heaven

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • Karl Jenkins: Quirk, Sarikiz & Over the Stone.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 114.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Viola Sonata: II. Vivace

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • A Lionel Tertis Celebration.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62: Overture

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • H盲ndel: Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 1.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (Old Viennese Dances)

    Music Arranger: Clark McAlister. Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    'Sorry-grateful' from 'Company' (2018 London cast version)

    Singer: Gavin Spokes. Singer: Richard Henders. Singer: Ben Lewis. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Joel Fram.
    • Company (2018 London Cast Recording).
    • Arts Music.
  • Georges Bizet

    Roma - symphonic suite (Carnaval)

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Naxos.

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  • Wed 19 Jun 2024 09:30

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