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Refresh your morning with classical music

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.

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 5 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Carl Orff

    Dance (Carmina Burana)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: AndrΓ© Previn.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zet‐SΓ©guin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Clarinet Trio Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Berkeley Ensemble.
    • Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet & Clarinet Trio.
    • resonus.
    • 09.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Magnificat (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro.
    • NAIVE.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Concert study no.2 in F major

    Performer: Nicolas Namoradze.
    • Hyperion.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story (America)

    Performer: Rita Moreno. Performer: Betty Wand. Performer: George Chakiris. Ensemble: West Side Story Orchestra. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • West Side Story: Original Soundtrack Recording (1961).
    • Sony.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche miniature viennoise

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert McDonald.
    • SONY.
  • Jan VΓ‘clav Hugo VoΕ™Γ­Ε‘ek

    Symphony in D Major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & VoΕ™Γ­Ε‘ek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Bernhard Hartog. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Tanja Christ. Performer: Georg Faust. Performer: Olaf Maninger.
    • DvoΕ™Γ‘k: String Sextet, Op. 48 - Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Carnival of the Animals: Finale

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Saint-SaΓ«ns: Carnival of the Animals & Symphony No. 3, Op. 78 "Organ Symphony".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    In furore iustissimae irae: Tunc meus Fletus

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alleluia.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (Cantata No 110)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach - Cantatas 43.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • John Williams

    Raiders March (From "Raiders of the Lost Ark")

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata No 5 in D major, Op 102 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Beethoven: Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • Marcel DuprΓ©

    Prelude (Prelude and fugue in B major Op.7`1)

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a wild rose (10 Woodland Sketches Op.51)

    Performer: Dame Moura Lympany.
    • Best-Loved Piano Classics: Lympany.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Arturo MΓ‘rquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: SimΓ³n BolΓ­var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Prelude in A major, Op 28 No 7

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 7.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 4 'La Spiritata' [1608 no.1]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Conductor: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in F Major, Hob. XVIII:3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    There is Sweet Music (4 Part Songs, Op 53)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • There Is Sweet Music: English Choral Songs, 1890-1950.
    • Collegium.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op 101 No 7

    Performer: Rudolf FirkuΕ‘nΓ½.
    • Dvorak: Piano Concerto/Humoresques: Firkusny/Saint Louis SO/Susskind.
    • MMG.
    • 10.
  • Henry Purcell

    Come, ye sons of art

    Singer: Jennifer Smith. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Timothy Wilson. Singer: Stephen Richardson. Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the shore

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Within A Dream: A celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Introduction and rondo Op.72

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • La clarinette parisienne.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Scherzo in D minor

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Dances from Aleko & Scherzo in D Minor.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande (Partita No 4 in D major, BWV 828)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Concert Overture, Op 12

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

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