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Classical soundtrack for your morning

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

Tue 13 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Gayane: Sabre Dance

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Sandra Rivers. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • EMI.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Gerda Blok Wilson

    O little rose, O dark rose

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Gavotte with 6 variations

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.
  • Josef Suk

    Beneath the Apple Tree Suite: Bacchanale

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Supraphon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Juan Crisostomo Arriaga

    Symphony in D minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Vorisek: Symphonies: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival.
    • DG.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Overture, Op.40`1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhäuser: Song to the Evening Star

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Franz Schubert

    Six Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 3 in F minor)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia – Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Daniel Blendulf.
    • Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Signum.
  • Leos Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (No 2, A Leaf Blown Away)

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 4.
  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the Leaf, Op 20

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Author: William Barnes. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Vaughan Williams: The English Song Series 14: Williams/Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo: Toccata

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D Minor Kk.1

    Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • SONY.
  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Song on the Vistula (Polonia Suite)

    Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • Panufnik Edition Symphonic Works Volume 2.
    • CPO.
    • 12.
  • Marcel Lanquetuit

    Toccata in D major

    Performer: Gillian Weir.
    • PRIORY.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 6, 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'

    Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Dominik Wörner. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No.6 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Anniversaries, Fancy Free Suite, Overture to Candide & Overture to Wo.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Antonio José

    Guitar Sonata (3rd mvt Pavana triste)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino - Spanish and French repertoire for guitar.
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Piano Concerto (4th mvt 'Joyful')

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Maconchy, Lutyens & Wallen: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Sperger

    Trio No 2 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Jurkovič. Performer: Milan Telecký. Performer: Juraj Alexander.
    • Sperger: Six Trios.
    • Trevak.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.

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