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
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Peter Ludwig Hertel
Clog Dance (La Fille mal gardée)
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.- Herold/Messager: La Fille mal gardee: Wordsworth/Lanchbery/Jacquillat.
- EMI.
- 14.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni (Overture)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Baldini.- LINN RECORDS.
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Kerensa Briggs
Media Vita
Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- SIGNUM.
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Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 3 (Allegro giocoso)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.- Grieg: Orchestral Music: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruud.
- BIS.
- 7.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Winter (The Four Seasons)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
- Channel Classics.
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Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova
Joey riding his hobbyhorse
Performer: Tomáš Víšek.- ARCO DIVA.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Idylle (Suite pastorale)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.- Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
- Decca.
- 2.
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Gaspar Sanz
Canarios
Ensemble: Pera Ensemble. Conductor: Mehmet Cemal Yeşilçay.- Berlin Classics.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tuba Concerto in F minor (2nd mvmt, Romanza)
Performer: Patrick Harrild. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Vaughan Williams: The 9 Symphonies: LSO, Bryden Thomson.
- Chandos.
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Florence Price
String Quartet No 2 in A minor (3rd mvmt, Juba)
Ensemble: Ragazze Quartet.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.- Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra/Gardelli.
- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
An der Mond D.259
Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haefliger.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Carl Vine
V
Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- The Enchanted Loom: Orchestral Works by Carl Vine.
- ABC Classic.
- 1.
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Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova
Joey riding his hobbyhorse
Performer: Tomáš Víšek.- ARCO DIVA.
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Alexander Glazunov
Petit adagio (The Seasons - Autumn)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS.
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne
Symphonie concertante in E flat major, Op 13 No 1 (1st mvmt)
Performer: Zoë Beyers. Performer: Midori Sugiyama. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon. -
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
Donna Diana (Overture)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.- Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
- Sony Classical.
- 14.
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Clara Schumann
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op 20
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Schumann & Brahms.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 17.
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Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova
Joey riding his hobbyhorse
Performer: Tomáš Víšek.- ARCO DIVA.
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Robert Schumann
Ritter vom Steckenpferd, Op 15 No 9 (Kinderszenen)
Performer: Lang Lang.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 16.
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Modest Mussorgsky
On the Hobby-Horse (from The Nursery)
Music Arranger: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner.- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death & The Nursery (.
- Naxos.
- 7.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Musical Toys (Sleigh With Little Bells)
Performer: Mei Yi Foo.- ODRADEK.
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Antônio Carlos Jobim
Children's Games
Performer: Antônio Carlos Jobim.- Stone Flower (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition).
- Masterworks Jazz.
- 2.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Wild Donkeys (Swift Animals), from Carnival of the Animals
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.- Carnival.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 7.
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Jean Coulthard
Polka (Excursion - suite from the ballet)
Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.- Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
- Naxos.
- 24.
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Jean Sibelius
Valse triste (Kuolema)
Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Warner.
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James Oswald
Ettrick Banks; Polwart on the Green (Sonata on Scots Tunes)
Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.- James Oswald: Colin's Kisses: Concerto Caledonia.
- Linn.
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Heyr þú oss himnum á [Hear us in the heavens]
Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.- Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
- BIS.
- 10.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 102 in B flat major (3rd mvt, Menuet)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
- Philips.
- 7.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.- Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
- Philips.
- 6.
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Bohuslav Martinů
The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Supraphon.
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Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31
Performer: Martha Argerich.- Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
- 29.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O Jerusalem
Performer: Robert White. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Choir: Gothic Voices. Ensemble: Doreen Muskett. Conductor: Christopher Page.- A Feather on the Breath of God: Songs of Hildegard von Bingen.
- Hyperion.
- 4.
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Götterdämmerung)
Orchestrator: Engelbert Humperdinck. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Ring des Nibelungen.
- Naxos.
- 501.
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Marin Marais
Prelude (Suite in G major)
Performer: François Joubert-Caillet. Ensemble: L’Achéron.- Ricecar.
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John Williams
Superman (Main title)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.- Rhino.
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- Wed 20 Nov 2024 09:30鶹Լ Radio 3