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Classical soundtrack for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Wind Serenade in D Minor Op.44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Dvorák: Serenades for Strings and Winds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major 'Schlummerlied' Op.117 no.1

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Schumann & Brahms.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 25.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Horn Concertino in E minor Op.45 (Polacca)

    Performer: Hermann Baumann. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Richard Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Weber: Concertino For Horn & Orches.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.
    • Decca.
  • Vladimir Horowitz

    Variations on a Theme from Bizet's Carmen

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • William Byrd

    Ave Verum Corpus

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hail, bright Cecilia Z.328 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March in B flat major Op. 99

    Ensemble: Kristiansand Blåseensemble. Conductor: Bjørn Sagstad.
    • Over the Hills and Far Away.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro in G flat major

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Soloists.
    • ԻéԲ.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkäinen's Return (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sony.
  • Undine Smith Moore

    We Shall Walk Through The Valley

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Haven.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 7.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite (Vivo; Minuetto e finale)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhauser)

    Music Arranger: Donald Lambert. Performer: Donald Lambert.
    • AudioSonic Music.
  • Georges Bizet

    Beat Out Dat Rhythm On a Drum (Carmen Jones)

    Music Arranger: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Muriel Smith. Orchestra: Original Broadway Cast Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Littau.
    • Bizet, G.: Carmen Jones (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (1943) / Carmen Jones.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Earl Wild

    I got rhythm (Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin)

    Performer: Earl Wild.
    • Chesky.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple symphony Op.4 (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in G major Op.1`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Rautio Piano Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 1, Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La bohème)

    Singer: Jonathan Tetelman. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • The Great Puccini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony no.3 Op.27 'Sinfonia Espansiva' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.
    • Carl Nielsen: The Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della Beata Vergine (Invitatorium: Versiculum et responsorium)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Quintet no.1 in D minor Op.89 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Fauré: Intégrale de la musique de chambre avec piano.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 24.
  • Anon.

    Galliard

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Overture Op.21)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Mendelssohn: Overture & Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

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