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The ideal morning mix of classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Pineapple Poll (Opening Dance)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Sullivan: Pineapple Poll etc: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus K.618

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 1.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto no.22 in D minor Wq.22 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • C. P. E. Bach: Flute Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabiev

    Piano Trio in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Brahms Trio.
    • History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 203.
  • Gustav Holst

    Symphony in F, Op 8 'The Cotswolds' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Lehár

    Ballsirenen Waltz (The Merry Widow)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Vienna Soiree.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.
    • Michael Torke: Three: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 1.
  • Debbie Wiseman

    Wilde

    Orchestra: Uncredited orchestra. Conductor: Debbie Wiseman.
    • Wilde: Original Soundtrack Recording.
    • Music Collection International.
    • 001.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Le papillon et la fleur; Les berceaux; Les roses d'Ispahan

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Véronique Gens.
  • Tina Davidson

    Blue Curve of the Earth

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • DG.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Deep Field (Earth Choir)

    Choir: Virtual Choir 5. Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Unquiet.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Sonata No.2, Op.39 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Weber & Schubert: Sonatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hole in the Wall [Hornpipe] (Abdelazer)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 6.
  • Arthur Somervell

    In summertime on Bredon (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • English Song.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Herbert Howells

    Nunc dimittis (Gloucester Service)

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Howells: St John's Magnificat - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral Symphony": III. Moderato pesante

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9 & Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 36.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 no.2

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Rachmaninov: Preludes Moments musicaux: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Erato.
  • Mieczysław Weinberg

    Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 45 - mov. 2 Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.
    • DG.
  • Graeme Koehne

    The Persistence of Memory

    Performer: David Nuttall. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Für Elise

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Tielman Susato

    Suite from Danserye

    Music Arranger: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble.
    • ASV.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Toward the Unknown Region

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Choir: Hallé Choir. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" - II. Fugue

    Performer: Helmut Walcha.
    • Bach, J.S.: Organ Works.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • My Favourite Dowland.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 008.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Serenade Op.37

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov.
    • Trip to Russia.
    • Orfeo.
    • 601.
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Rissolty Rossolty (arr. for brass ensemble by Jarle Storløkken)

    Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 13.
  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin

    Performer: Kenneth Smith. Performer: Paul Rhodes.
    • The Expressive Voice of the Flute.
    • Divine Art.
    • 1201.
  • Louis Couperin

    Les Barricades mystérieuses

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso No 6 in A major after Corelli

    Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Conductor: Chiara Banchini.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi - Composes: Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 23-26.
  • Gjermund Haugen

    Tjønneblomen (Arr. For String Quartet)

    Music Arranger: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen. Music Arranger: Frederik Øland. Music Arranger: Asbjørn Nørgaard. Music Arranger: Fredrik Sjölin.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 4.
  • Douglas Lilburn

    Aotearoa

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Lilburn: Orchestral Works: James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

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  • Mon 22 Apr 2024 09:30

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