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The ideal morning mix of 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

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Last on

Wed 21 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz (Faust)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Coppélia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Florence Price

    Fantasie No. 1

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Decca.
  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.
  • John Frederick Lampe

    Pyramus and Thisbe: Overture

    Ensemble: Opera Restor'd. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (English Orpheus 29).
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Giles Farnaby

    Giles Farnaby's Dreame

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • George Farnaby's Dreame.
    • Adda.
    • 27.
  • Simon Jeffes

    Giles Farnaby's Dream

    Ensemble: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • Virgin.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ave Maria (Otello)

    Singer: Margaret Price. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • William Walton

    Symphony No 1 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise No. 3 in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1 "Military"

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Chopin: Great Polonaises; Andante spianato.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No 50 "Mount St. Helens" (3rd mvt: Volcano)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountains.
    • Telarc.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Yann Dubost. Ensemble: Thymos Quartet.
    • Avie.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Orchestra: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelso.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Benjamin Britten

    O wall, full often (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 215.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Daniele Callegari.
    • Rolando Villazon: Tenor.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Denon 24/7: Vol. 4.
    • Denon.
    • 1.
  • Aaron Copland

    Our Town

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Copland: Music For Films.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 8.
  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Sonata No. 55 in A Minor

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Ensemble: Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble.
    • Zayt Gezunterheyt: The folk soul of the Eastern clarinet.
    • Antarctica.
    • 2.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Cello Concerto in D

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Music Arranger: David Mackie. Music Arranger: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets.
    • Cedille.
    • 3.
  • Eric Coates

    Four Centuries Suite (4th mvt: Rhythm)

    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 22.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Sunshine Journal (No 1, Allegro)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Performer: Elena Kats‐Chernin.
    • Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 29.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major Op.31 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Spohr: Septet and Nonet: Ensemble 360.
    • ASV.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 21 Aug 2024 09:30

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