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Great classical music for your morning

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

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    貹ñ

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Atma Classique.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No 2, Op 16, 'The Four Temperaments' (4th mvt, Allegro sanguineo)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Nielsen: Complete Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (5th mvmt, Cavatina)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Amy Beach

    Bal Masqué

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 12

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • An die Musik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for large orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn quintet in E flat major, K 407 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Louis Ballard

    The Four Moons (Finale: Pas de quatre)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Ballard: Devil's Promenade, Fantasy Aborigine No. 3, The Four Moons & Scenes fro.
    • Naxos.
    • 110.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si puo fare

    Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón. Performer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea.
    • Ambronay.
  • Amy Beach

    Bal Masqué

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Phyllis Tate

    London Fields (Suite)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lyrita.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    November (In the Troika), from The Seasons

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Amy Beach

    Bal Masqué

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Masks (Romeo and Juliet - suite no.1 Op.64a)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Excerpts from Suites No.1-3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Un ballo in maschera (Saper vorreste - Oscar's aria)

    Singer: Reri Grist. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 25.
  • François Couperin

    Les Baricades Mistérieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.6)

    Performer: Davitt Moroney.
    • Couperin / Les Idées Heureuses.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    Masked Ball (Eyes Wide Shut)

    Performer: Jocelyn Pook.
    • WARNER.
  • Roger Sessions

    Dance (The Black Maskers)

    Orchestra: Juilliard Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Zukofsky.
    • Works by Schuman, Copland, Sessions.
    • New World Records.
    • 3.
  • Johann Strauss II

    J. Strauss II: Act 2: "Klänge der Heimat"

    Lyricist: Karl Haffner. Lyricist: Richard Genée. Lyricist: Henri Meilhac. Lyricist: Ludovic Halévy. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Josephine Lang

    Arabesque

    Performer: Ian Tindale.
  • Anonymous 15th Century

    Pulcherrima rosa

    Performer: Jan Garbarek. Music Arranger: Jan Garbarek. Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • Officium.
    • ECM.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite in E flat major for military band (1st mvmt, Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • British Wind Band Classics.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 100 in G major, 'Military' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Decca 478 9604.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Irene Britton Smith

    Violin Sonata (2nd mvmt, Andante con sentimento)

    Performer: Dawn Wohn. Performer: Emely Phelps.
    • DELOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710: "Scenderò, volerò, griderò"

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Amazone.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 25.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan Op.20

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.

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