Classical soundtrack 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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Benjamin Britten
Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Waltz)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
- Decca.
- 9.
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Claude Debussy
Arabesque no.1 in E major
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
- Decca.
- 16.
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Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso in D minor 'La Folia' after Corelli's Op.5`12
Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Ensemble: Concerto Köln.- ARCHIV.
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Georges Bizet
L'Arlésienne - Suite No 1 (Minuetto)
Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- The Best of Bizet.
- Philips.
- 2.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Cantantibus organis
Ensemble: The Cardinall’s Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.- HYPERION.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)
Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.- ECM New Series.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F Minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Till Fellner. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- ALPHA : 248.
- ALPHA.
- 7.
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Amy Beach
Symphony in E minor, Op.32 'Gaelic' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Chandos.
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Percy Grainger
Handel In The Strand
Performer: Daniel Cook.- PRIORY.
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George Frideric Handel
Vieni, o figlio! (Ottone, re di Germania, Act 2)
Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- Handel: Arias.
- harmonia mundi.
- 7.
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John Ireland
A London Overture
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Wilson.- Ireland: Orchestral Music: Halle/John Wilson.
- Halle.
- 9.
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
La Flamande - Allemande (Suite in D minor, Pièces de clavecin, 1707)
Performer: Salvatore Carchiolo.- Naive.
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Louise Farrenc
Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.- Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
- CPO.
- 7.
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Edvard Grieg
March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
- EMI Classics.
- 9.
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Frank Bridge
Cherry Ripe
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Hyperion.
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Jocelyn Pook
How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.- Decca.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)
Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Debussy & Rameau.
- DG.
- 17.
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Stephen Sondheim
Send in the clowns (A Little Night Music)
Singer: Judi Dench. Orchestra: Royal National Theatre Band. Conductor: Paddy Cunneen.- TRING.
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Ermengildo Abbate del Cinque
Sonata No 15 in C major for 3 cellos
- Arcana.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.- Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
- Teldec.
- 3.
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John Dowland
I saw my lady weep
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Hyperion.
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Leos Janáček
The Saws (Lachian Dances)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.- Supraphon.
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Roman Hoffstetter
String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt, Serenade)
Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.- Portraits.
- Mirare.
- 111.
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Manuel de Falla
Nights in the gardens of Spain for piano and orchestra
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Louis Langrée.- ERATO.
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Roxanna Panufnik
Prayer
Singer: Julia Doyle. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Padre Pio: Prayer.
- CORO.
- 8.
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John Rutter
Waltz (Suite Lyrique)
Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.- Blessing.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 13.
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Pauline Viardot
Hai Luli!
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Merci.
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Scott Joplin
Solace (A Mexican serenade)
Performer: Richard Dowling.- The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin.
- Rivermont Records.
- 34.
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Charles Avison
Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.9 No.8
Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
- Divine Art.
- 29.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.- Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
- Signum Classics.
- 103.
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