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The ideal morning mix of classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd Girl's dance (The Mountain king)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • Orchestral Works: Malmo Symphony Orchestra / DePriest.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Air (Water Music - Suite in F major, HWV 348)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel Edition Volume 9 - Orchestral Music.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 92.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 67 in B major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 116.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K 191: II. Andante ma Adagio

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart, Weber & Du Puy: Bassoon Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Piano Trio in A major (3rd mvmt, September Rhapsody)

    Performer: Leila Rasonyi. Performer: László Fenyő. Performer: Alpaslan Ertungealp.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Caerwen Martin

    Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Collective Wisdom.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 10.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.5 in F major Op.76 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorák: Symphonies 5 & 7-9.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • John Sheppard

    Libera nos

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance: Music for inner peace.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 16.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Apotheosis of Fevronia (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - suite)

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 204.
  • Johann Adolf Hasse

    Morte col fiero aspetto (Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • Drama Queens.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Caerwen Martin

    Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Collective Wisdom.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 10.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Rêverie et caprice Op.8

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op.11

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Woogie Boogie

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Matthew Hagle.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 901.
  • Caerwen Martin

    Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Collective Wisdom.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 10.
  • Randall Thompson

    Choose something like a star (Frostiana)

    Conductor: Ron-Dirk Entleutner. Choir: Landesjugendchor Sachsen. Orchestra: Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig.
    • Barber: The Lovers, Op. 43.
    • Rondeau.
    • 107.
  • Peter Sculthorpe

    Stars (Night Pieces, No 3)

    Performer: Peter Hill.
    • La Fauvette Passirenette: A Messiaen Premiere, With Birds, Landscapes & Homages.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 11.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    One star, at last

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • One Star, At Last.
    • Signum Records.
    • 16.
  • Henri Duparc

    Aux Etoiles

    Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Si j'ai aime.
    • ALPHA.
    • 11.
  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath the Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (March)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears

    Performer: David Orlowsky. Performer: David Bergmüller. Music Arranger: David Orlowsky. Music Arranger: David Bergmüller.
    • Alter Ego.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Leise flehen meine Lieder), D 957 No 4

    Orchestrator: Jacques Offenbach. Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Oscar Jockel.
    • Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 119.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Sinfonietta for String Orchestra

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Aqua

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • BTTB (20th Anniversary Edition).
    • WM Japan.
    • 14.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor RV.522, Op.3 No.8 for 2 violins and orchestra (Allegro)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik.
    • Baroque Adventure: The Quest For Arundo Donax (Aventure Baroque: La Quete De L'A.
    • ANALEKTA.
    • 19.
  • Inon Zur

    Into the Starfield (Main Theme from Starfield)

    Performer: Inon Zur.
    • Bethesda Softworks.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Chichester Psalms

    Singer: John‐Paul Bogart. Choir: Camerata Singers. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.

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  • Thu 28 Sep 2023 09:00

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