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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is British tenor Ian Bostridge. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers – the last of our tracks this week featuring tenor Ian Bostridge.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 1 Apr 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • ERATO.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 90 in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Haydn: Symphonies 88-92.
    • EMI.
    • 12.
  • Thomas Adès

    O Albion (Arcadiana)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pêcheurs de nuit (Night fishermen), from Poems of Provence, Op 127

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Concerto No 3 in B flat major, Op 11 (3rd mvt, Alla polacca)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Crusell: Clarinet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Listen to the Lambs

    Singer: Steve Burger. Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 005.
  • William Byrd

    The Irish March

    Performer: Skip Sempé.
    • William Byrd: Virginal & Consorts.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 113.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances, Op 64: No 3 (Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pêcheurs de nuit (Night fishermen), from Poems of Provence, Op 127

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in C major Op.51`1

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Beethoven: Piano concerto no.5 etc: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Jane Grey - Fantasy, Op 15

    Performer: Scott Dickinson. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Teresa Riveiro Böhm.
  • Antonio Salieri

    Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Salier: Symphonies, Overtures and Variations.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • John Lennon

    The Fool on the Hill

    Composer: Paul McCartney. Ensemble: The Beatles.
    • Magical Mystery Tour.
    • EMI.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth, TWV.55:C3 - Die Erwachende Thetis (Bourree)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Albert Franz Doppler. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Liszt: 6 Hungarian Rhapsodies: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pêcheurs de nuit (Night fishermen), from Poems of Provence, Op 127

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • Trad.

    A Jolly Fat Frog Lived in a River

    Singer: Tim Laycock. Singer: Vivien Ellis.
    • SAYDISC.
  • Robin Milford

    Fishing by Moonlight

    Performer: Julian Milford. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Director: Robert Salter.
    • Hyperion.
  • Georges Bizet

    Au fond du temple saint (The Pearl Fishers)

    Singer: Jussi Björling. Singer: Robert Merrill. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Renato Cellini.
    • RCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    3 Fantastic Dances, Op 5 (No 1)

    Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich.
    • EMI.
  • Nick Kenny

    Gone Fishing

    Composer: Charles Kenny. Singer: Bing Crosby. Singer: Louis Armstrong.
    • Ronnie On The Radio - The Ronnie Wood Show - Rock & Roll Selections.
    • Chrome Dreams.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fischerweise, D 881

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • DG.
  • Experiments in Musical Intelligence

    Suite (after Rachmaninov)

    Composer: David Cope. Performer: Maria Ezerova. Performer: Anatole Leikin.
    • Centaur.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Orage (Les Indes galantes)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 27.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon (The House of Life)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Ian Bostridge: The English Songbook.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Haakon Jarl

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major K.375 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Freda Swain

    Piano Sonata no.2 in F sharp minor (Pandean Rondo)

    Performer: Timon Altwegg.
    • Swain: Piano Works, Vol. 1.
    • Toccata Classics.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Dormi, o fulmine di guerra (La Giuditta)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • ERATO.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor (2nd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Dance of the Cygnets)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Fri 1 Apr 2022 09:00