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Great classical music 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.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi - Overtures and Preludes: Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: David Blackadder. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel: Coronation Anthems: Choir of King's College Cambridge/Cleobury.
    • EMI.
    • 16.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle in D flat major, Op.96

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
    • ERATO.
    • 7.
  • Franz Krommer

    Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E flat, Op.91 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Jörg Faerber.
    • Clarinet Works By Krommer & Rossini.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Rapsodie d'Auvergne in C major Op.73

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Saint Saens: Piano Concertos Nos.3 and 5 etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Johann Strauss II Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
    • Apex.
    • 7.
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Concerto for Violin, Strings & Continuo in G, Bre.9

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Extra Time.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    3 Fantastic Dances Op.5

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for Piano - Kathryn Scott.
    • Chandos.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che Si Puo Fare Op.8 no.6

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunità. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Carnival in Paris Op.9

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of Spring (6 Pieces Op.32)

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Sinding, C.: Violin and Piano Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Alto Rhapsody Op.53

    Singer: Ann Hallenberg. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - suite

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Fontalis.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne - set 1)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Trad.

    The Irish Washerwoman

    Orchestra: Robert Farnon Orchestra.
    • Vocalion.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Symphony on a French Mountain Air (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • D'indy: Orchestral Works Vol. 5.
    • Chandos.
    • 03.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • Avi Avital Vivaldi.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Missa Bruxellensis (Kyrie)

    Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Biber:Missa Bruxellensis.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 01.
  • André Previn

    Tango, Song and Dance (Song)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: André Previn.
    • Tango Song and Dance: Andre Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
  • Enrique Granados

    El fandango de candil (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Performer: Truls Mørk. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Virgin.
  • Herman Bellstedt

    Napoli

    Performer: Roger Webster. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.
    • Essential Dyke Vol. III: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite, Op.40)

    Music Arranger: Jon Faukstad. Music Arranger: Jon Faukstad. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Fairy Tales.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sanfte soll mein Todeskummer (Easter Oratorio)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Bach Generations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Insanae et vanae curae

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • John Jenkins

    Fantasy No 12 in D major

    Performer: Daniel Hyde. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.

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  • Wed 8 May 2024 09:30

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