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Refresh your morning with classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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

Thu 10 Oct 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia 21. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ständchen (Schwanengesang)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op 6 (1st mvmt, Andante con moto)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Kodály: Hungarian Rondo, Summer Evening; Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-Flat Maj.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major for oboe and violin, RV. 548

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Vivaldi II: Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Four Pieces Op. 81 - II: Scherzo in A minor

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • ERATO.
  • Gabriel Yared

    The Cave Of Swimmers (The English Patient)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Rabinowitz.
    • The English Patient (Original Soundtrack Recording).
    • Fantasy.
    • 23.
  • Trad.

    College Hornpipe

    Music Arranger: Mark O’Connor. Music Arranger: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Yoâ€Yo Ma. Performer: Mark O’Connor. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology: Ma/Meyer/O'Connor/Bell.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Enrique Granados

    7 Valses Poéticos

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Pastime with good company / Hélas madame

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.
  • Trad. Welsh

    Hiraeth (Yearning)

    Singer: Huw Rhys-Evans.
    • All Through the Night.
    • Claudio Records.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Dance of the Mirlitons)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.
    • Michael Torke: Three: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 1.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    Ecce beatam lucem

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • 40 Voices.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E major (7 Fantasies, Op.116)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • The Final Piano Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 04.
  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances (Nos 2-6)

    Music Arranger: Jonas Dominique. Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Martin Frost: Roots.
    • Sony.
    • 10-14.
  • Xavier Dubois Foley

    Shelter Island

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Xavier Dubois Foley.
    • DECCA.
  • Alan Bush

    Lascaux Symphony, Op. 98 (Symphony No.4): II. The Children (Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alan Bush.
    • A. Bush: Lascaux Symphony & Dorian Passacaglia.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 3.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Desert Swimmers

    Performer: Joby Burgess.
    • A Percussionist's Songbook.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Marvin Hamlisch

    Theme from "The Swimmer"

    • The Swimmer.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    The Carnival of the Animals: Pianists; Fossils

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony / Carnival of the Animals.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15-16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Gavotte 1 and 2)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach - The Orchestral Suites.
    • ACCENT.
    • 10.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.1 in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leo McFall.
    • Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 103.
  • Caleb Burhans

    Magnificat

    Conductor: Caleb Burhans. Choir: Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
    • Caleb Burhans: Evensong.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Overturen - Weiner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 7.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Mazurka appassionata

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • El Bohemio.
    • Warner Music Group.
    • 3.
  • Aaron Copland

    The Cat and the Mouse

    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Ina Boyle

    Symphony no.1 'Glencree' [In the Wicklow Hills]

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • DUTTON.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Kenilworth Suite (March: Kenilworth)

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Bliss: Works for Brass Band.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 104.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schön Rosmarin (Old Viennese Dances)

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Virtuoso Vengerov.
    • Teldec.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Polska from Dorotea

    Music Arranger: Duo Aliada. Ensemble: Duo Aliada.
    • East West.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat major, K 456 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Director: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Oct 2024 09:30

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