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Refresh your morning with classical music

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

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

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.

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

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 29 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin (Le Triomphe de la Republique)

    Music Arranger: Charles Gerhardt. Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • James Galway - Celebrating 70 - A collection of Personal Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Performer: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Belshazzar's Feast/Crown Imperial.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Agnus Dei (Mass in G major)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Figure Humaine: Choral Works by Francis Poulenc.
    • Signum.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor Op.39

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Sonatina in G major, Op 100 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel - Dvorak, Janacek, Smetana.
    • Analekta.
    • 10.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Green (A Colour Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bliss - A Colour Symphony.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls, Op 54, No 3 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in C major Wq.182`3

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • C.P.E. Bach: "Beyond the Limits" Complete Symphonies for Strings and Continuo.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13-15.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Capriccio Op.18

    Performer: Nils‐Erik Sparf. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    "Una voce poco fa" (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Aigul Akhmetshina. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.
    • DECCA.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Amatis Piano Trio.
    • Enescu, Ravel, Britten.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 6.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - Waltz Sequence No 1

    Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • DG.
    • 21.
  • William Byrd

    Though Amaryllis dance in green

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Herbert Howells

    In green ways - 5 songs Op.43; no.4; Wanderer's night song (Over the hilltops)

    Singer: Yvonne Kenny. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Holst: The Collectors Edition.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Kk. 56

    Performer: Julius Asal.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Opretta Overtures: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Janiczek.
    • Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète & Pulcinella Suite.
    • Linn Records.
    • 11.
  • Pedro de Cristo

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Hyperion.
  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A major, Op 41 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3.
    • ECM.
    • 8.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings, Op.35

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • EMI.
  • Peter Ludwig Hertel

    Clog Dance (La fille mal gardée)

    Music Arranger: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • Herold/Lecocq: La Fille mal gardee: Royal Opera House Orchestra/Lanchbery.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Franz Schubert

    Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D 360

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danse espagnole No 1 (La vida breve)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • 12 Stradivari.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op.43 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Carl Nielsen / Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintets.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1-4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Three-Part Invention in C major, BWV 787

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Bach: Two and Three part inventions: The Glenn Gould Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les préludes

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • DG.

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