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Great classical music for your morning

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

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Huw Daniel. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • DIVOX.
  • Philip Glass

    Truman Sleeps (The Truman Show)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Decca.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.
  • Vittoria Aleotti

    Hor che la vaga aurora

    Ensemble: Cantus Thuringia. Director: Christoph Dittmar.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 77 in B flat major (Finale)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 44 & 77.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Mammy (Magnolia Suite)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 4.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Dance of the Comedians)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • Little Pearls of Czech Classics: Czech Philharmonic Orch/Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 (4th mvmt, Adagietto)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    L'Amour est le dieu de la paix (Anacréon)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Les Paladins. Conductor: Jérôme Corréas.
    • Le Triomphe De L'Amour.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Josephine Lang

    Gondolier's Night Song, Op 32 No 1

    Performer: Ian Tindale.
  • Luigi Mancinelli

    Carnival (Venetian Scenes, No 1)

    Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
    • Mancinelli: Scene veneziane.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Vittoria Aleotti

    Hor che la vaga aurora

    Ensemble: Cantus Thuringia. Director: Christoph Dittmar.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Concertante Quartet in G minor, Op 15 No 2 (1st mvmt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Elmore Quartet.
  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes (No 1, Buckaroo Holiday)

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Bis.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Ave Maris Stella

    Singer: Alexandra Stevenson. Choir: Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Nicolae Moldoveanu.
    • A song more silent - new works for remembrance.
    • Avie.
    • 001.
  • Vittoria Aleotti

    Hor che la vaga aurora

    Ensemble: Cantus Thuringia. Director: Christoph Dittmar.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    The Triumph of Love (Entry of Apollo)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • French Baroque.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 86.
  • Maddalena Casulana

    Come fiammeggia e splende

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort.
    • Fieri Records.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song before Sunrise

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The World of Delius.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Thomas Arne

    The Morning

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    October (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, F.: Keyboard Music, Vol. 1 - Das Jahr: 12 Characterstucke.
    • CPO.
    • 110.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297, 'Winter' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Director: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Mutter, Trondheim Soloists.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture in D major

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Rita Strohl

    Septet in C minor (3rd mvmt, Romance)

    Performer: Shuichi Okada. Performer: Alexandre Pascal. Performer: Léa Hennino. Performer: Claudine Legras. Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: Lorraine Campet. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Rita Strohl: Volume 2, Musique de chambre.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 107.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 34 & Serenade in F Major, Op. 31 (Liv.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Francisco de Peñalosa

    Por las sierras de Madrid

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to Come (March)

    Music Arranger: Phillip Littlemore. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Bliss: Works for Brass Band.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 113.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D minor, K 421 (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 15 & 19 "Dissonances", Divertimento K. 138.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Symphony in F sharp minor (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.4 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Verità Baroque.
    • Evil Penguin.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Strenuous Life

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 009.

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  • Tue 8 Oct 2024 09:30

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