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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

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Music Played

  • Peter Ludwig Hertel

    Clog Dance (La Fille mal gard茅e)

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Herold/Messager: La Fille mal gardee: Wordsworth/Lanchbery/Jacquillat.
    • EMI.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Baldini.
    • LINN RECORDS.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 3 (Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova

    Joey riding his hobbyhorse

    Performer: Tom谩拧 V铆拧ek.
    • ARCO DIVA.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Gaspar Sanz

    Canarios

    Ensemble: Pera Ensemble. Conductor: Mehmet Cemal Ye艧il莽ay.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba Concerto in F minor (2nd mvmt, Romanza)

    Performer: Patrick Harrild. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Vaughan Williams: The 9 Symphonies: LSO, Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 2 in A minor (3rd mvmt, Juba)

    Ensemble: Ragazze Quartet.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra/Gardelli.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    An der Mond D.259

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Carl Vine

    V

    Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • The Enchanted Loom: Orchestral Works by Carl Vine.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 1.

  • Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova

    Joey riding his hobbyhorse

    Performer: Tom谩拧 V铆拧ek.
    • ARCO DIVA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Petit adagio (The Seasons - Autumn)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Symphonie concertante in E flat major, Op 13 No 1 (1st mvmt)

    Performer: Zo毛 Beyers. Performer: Midori Sugiyama. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • Clara Schumann

    Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op 20

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Schumann & Brahms.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.

  • Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova

    Joey riding his hobbyhorse

    Performer: Tom谩拧 V铆拧ek.
    • ARCO DIVA.

  • Robert Schumann

    Ritter vom Steckenpferd, Op 15 No 9 (Kinderszenen)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    On the Hobby-Horse (from The Nursery)

    Music Arranger: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death & The Nursery (.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Musical Toys (Sleigh With Little Bells)

    Performer: Mei Yi Foo.
    • ODRADEK.

  • Ant么nio Carlos Jobim

    Children's Games

    Performer: Ant么nio Carlos Jobim.
    • Stone Flower (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Masterworks Jazz.
    • 2.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Wild Donkeys (Swift Animals), from Carnival of the Animals

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Carnival.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Jean Coulthard

    Polka (Excursion - suite from the ballet)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 24.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste (Kuolema)

    Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Warner.

  • James Oswald

    Ettrick Banks; Polwart on the Green (Sonata on Scots Tunes)

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • James Oswald: Colin's Kisses: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Linn.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr 镁煤 oss himnum 谩 [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: H枚r冒ur 脕skelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 102 in B flat major (3rd mvt, Menuet)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.

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