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The best classical morning music

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.

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

Last on

Fri 29 Mar 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music: Suite in F major, HWV 348 (Air)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Fire & Water.
    • Classic FM.
    • 12-13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt, Vivace non troppo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Cherubic Hymn No 1

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, TH 75 (Excerpts) & 9 Sacred.
    • Ondine.
    • 201.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Semiramide (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Prelude and Fugue on 'O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid'

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • LOFT.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Spanish Dance no.1 (La Vida Breve)

    Music Arranger: Nemanja Radulović. Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Orchestra: Double Sens. Conductor: Nemanja Radulović.
    • Roots.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in C minor K 388 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • William Grant Still

    Cumbia y Congo (Danzas de Panama)

    Performer: Louis Kaufman. Performer: George Berres. Performer: Alexander Neiman. Performer: Terry King.
    • Lenox Avenue - the music of William Grant Still.
    • CAMBRIA.
    • 008.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Silentio Nocivo

    Choir: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón.
    • Ambronay.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op 35 (The Sea and Sinbad's Ship)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricco Espagnol: Mackerras.
    • Telarc.
    • 1.
  • Martin Butler

    American Rounds, No 2 (Grazioso, semplice)

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • Martin Butler; American Rounds.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Uno jionto postouro (A pretty shepherdess) from Songs of the Auvergne

    Singer: Victoria de los Ángeles. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Jean‐Pierre Jacquillat.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 124.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Prelude and Fugue on 'O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid'

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • LOFT.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat major, Op 45 No 3

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • IMG Artists.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    March (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Cantata No 147)

    Music Arranger: Guillermo Figueroa. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Albioni/Pachelbel/Bach: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Prelude and Fugue on 'O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid'

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • LOFT.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop, drop, slow tears

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.
  • François Couperin

    Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres (opening)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Ensemble: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.
    • Francois Couperin: Lecons de Tenebres.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 015.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Mystery Sonata No 10 in G minor, 'The Crucifixion of Jesus' (III. Adagio)

    Performer: Patrick Bismuth. Ensemble: La Tempesta.
    • Biber : Les sonates du Rosaire.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 26.
  • Jacobus Gallus

    Ecce quomodo moritur justus

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Remembrance: Choral Music In Memoriam.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (1st mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Halstead.
    • ALTO.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (2nd mvmt, Lively)

    Ensemble: Ensemble X.
    • AVIE.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Tenebrae Responsories - Matins Responsories for good Friday: Nocturn III - Calig

    Conductor: Robert Hollingworth. Ensemble: I Fagiolini.
    • Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.
    • CORO.
    • 12.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Kamarinskaya

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • GLINKA: Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Aaron Copland

    Morning on the Ranch (The Red Pony)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Copland: Four dances from Rodeo: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/Falletta.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater in F minor)

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Pergolesi; Stabat Mater-Laudate Pueri-Confitebor.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op 167 (2nd mvmt, Allegro animato)

    Performer: Richard Stoltzman. Performer: Irma Vallecillo.
    • RCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.
  • Helvi Leiviskä

    Piano Concerto in D minor, Op 7: 3rd movement

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Orchestra: Weimar Staatskapelle. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Leiviskä: Piano Concerto in D Minor, Op. 7 & Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 103.

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