Refresh your morning with classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Ian Skelly 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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LΓ©o Delibes
CoppΓ©lia Waltz arr Dohnanyi
Performer: Martin Roscoe. Music Arranger: Erno Dohnanyi.- Dohnanyi: Piano Music: Martin Roscoe.
- Hyperion.
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Percy Grainger
The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)
Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Warner.
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Reinhold Moritzevich Glière
Impromptu
Performer: Lavinia Meijer.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe and Violin Concerto in B flat major RV.548
Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Stefano Montanari. Ensemble: Zefiro.- ±·΄΅Γ³Υ·΅.
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George Enescu
Aubade in C Major
Performer: CΓ©cile Agator. Performer: Flore-Anne Brosseau. Performer: Samuel Etienne.- The Enescu Project.
- Orchid Classics.
- 101.
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Thomas Alexander Erskine
The Maid of the Mill
Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.- Linn.
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Max Bruch
Concerto for Clarinet & Viola in E Minor, Op.88 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Dimitri Ashkenazy. Performer: Anton Kholodenko. Orchestra: Baltic Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mats Liljefors.- Weber & Bruch: Works for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra.
- Paladino Music.
- 503.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 (Part 1)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Bach Motets Gardiner.
- SDG.
- 16.
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LeΓ³ Weiner
Serenade in F Minor Op.3 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro.- DohnΓ΅nyi & Weiner: Orchestral Works.
- CapriccioNR.
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Ned Rorem
Early in the morning
Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.- The Art of Susan Graham.
- Erato.
- 3.
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George Gershwin
An American in Paris (excerpt)
Music Arranger: Franck Villard. Performer: Michel Lethiec. Orchestra: Jyväskylä Sinfonia. Conductor: Patrick Gallois.- Naxos.
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Mario Castelnuovoβ€Tedesco
Guitar Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op.99: I. Allegretto
Performer: Kazuhito Yamashita. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concertos.
- RCA Red Seal.
- 1.
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Franz Liszt
Feux-Follets (Etudes d'execution transcendante S.139)
Performer: Kirill Gerstein.- Myrios.
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture in C Minor, Op. 80
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Academic Festival Overture.
- PENTATONE.
- 5.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.- ECM New Series.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 'Archduke' (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: ATOS Trio.- Beethoven Piano Trios 2.
- Wigmore Hall Live.
- 02.
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Franz Schubert
Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin)
Music Arranger: Thomas Guthrie. Singer: Thomas Guthrie. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.- Rubicon.
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Sam Sweeney
Maid of the Mill
Performer: Sam Sweeney.- Unearth Repeat.
- Hudson Records.
- 4.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill
Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.- Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel / The House of Life (English Song, Vol. 14).
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Manuel de Falla
Farruca (The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 2)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI Classics.
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Giovanni Picchi
Canzon decima nona a doi chori from 'Canzoni da sonar'
Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco. Director: Giulia Genini. -
Steve Reich
Duet for 2 violins and strings
Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.- Different Trains.
- Signum Classics.
- 4.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte)
Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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Graeme Koehne
In-Flight Entertainment: Horse Opera
Performer: Diana Doherty. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.- Koehne: Inflight Entertainment.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in A flat major, H.16.43 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin.- Haydn: Piano Sonatas: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 6.
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Nikolai Tcherepnin
Grande valse noble (excerpt from Le Pavillon d'Armide)
Performer: Staatsphilhamonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Conductor: Igor Blashev.- Tcherepnin: Orch and Ballet works.
- OLYMPIA.
- 5.
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Edward Elgar
Severn Suite for brass band (Op.87)
Conductor: Roy Newsome.- Epic Brass.
- Chandos.
- 2.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Si dolce Γ¨'l tormento
Singer: Arianna Savall. Singer: Petter Udland Johansen. Ensemble: Hirundo Maris.- Carpe Diem Records: 16307.
- Carpe Diem Records.
- 8.
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Gabriel FaurΓ©
Serenade, Op. 98
- Merci.
- Sony Classical.
- 15.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture and Suites from the Operas.
- CHANDOS.
- 5.
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Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.- Chandos.
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Alexander Scriabin
Mazurkas in E minor Op.3 no.7
Performer: Peter Jablonski.- Scriabin: Mazurkas.
- Ondine.
- 7.
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Georges Bizet
Symphony in C major (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Broadcast
- Mon 25 Nov 2024 09:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3