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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.

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

Fri 30 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Concerto in F (3rd mvt, Allegro agitato)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • WARNER.
  • Manuel Cardoso

    Tua est potentia

    Ensemble: Cupertinos. Director: Luís Toscano.
    • Cardoso: Requiem.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Achante et Céphise: Ouverture

    Orchestra: Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie. Conductor: Alexis Kossenko.
    • Rameau: Achante et Céphise.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 38

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Behold the Sun! (The Seasons: Summer)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Andrew Foster-Williams. Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Choir: Chór NFM. Ensemble: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • HAYDN The Seasons CD1.
    • Signum.
    • 011.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Chinese Dance)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 7.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Tijana Milošević. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • Roots.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Bamboula

    • Summertime.
    • DECCA.
    • 16.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso F Major, Op 6 No 2

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Sinfonia to Santa Beatrice d'Este.
    • 貹é.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor Op.59`2 'Razumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio K.418

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 01.
  • Othmar Schoeck

    Horn Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bruno Schneider. Orchestra: Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.
    • Schoeck: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 4.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in F major, Op 15 No 1

    Performer: Claudio Arrau.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Claudio Arrau.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Danse Macabre Op.40

    Music Arranger: Edwin Lemare. Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Voyages.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.
  • Thomas Arne

    The Morning

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Op.17

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin Suite etc: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Gurrelieder: Seht die Sonne!

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Choir: Ernst-Senff-Chor Berlin. Choir: MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle Edition: The Second Viennese School.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Judith Weir

    Roll Off the Ragged Rocks of Sin

    Performer: Grace Francis.
    • TMI.
  • Trad.

    Whilst great is our poverty

    Composer: Cyrillus Kreek. Performer: Anna-Liisa Eller. Performer: Marco Ambrosini. Choir: Vox Clamantis. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand March (Aida)

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • Marches in Hi-Fi: Arthur Fiedler.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Unst Boat Song

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Sonatina for clarinet and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • EMI.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue & Popular Orchestral Works.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Franz Schubert

    Arpeggione Sonata in A minor

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • 100 Best Ballet.
    • EMI Classics.
  • George Butterworth

    Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of trees

    Orchestrator: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams.
    • Halle.
    • 5.
  • Nicolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B minor, K 27

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.7 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Bruckner:Symphonies No. 4 - No. 9.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 Aug 2024 09:30

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