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Refresh your morning with classical music

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

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

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

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon - Overture

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Kabalevsky: Works for Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte - book 2 Op.30: no.6; Venetianisches Gondellied in F sharp min

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang. Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer.
    • DG.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Beatus Vir

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    La boite a joujoux [The Toy Box]: The Toy Shop

    Music Arranger: André Caplet. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • SEATTLESYMPHONY.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
    • Falla: Spanish Songs etc.: De Los Angeles/Giulini/Fruhbeck de Burgos.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in C minor Op.73

    Performer: Malin Broman. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les Biches)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Signum.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf der Bruck, D.853

    Singer: Konstantin Krimmel. Performer: Ammiel Bushakevitz.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    Scherzo for string orchestra, Op 6

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Frans Rasmussen.
    • DA CAPO.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silent Woods

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • Decca.
  • Henry Purcell

    Symphony [Sonata while the sun rises] (The Fairy Queen)

    Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Müller und der Bach, D 795 No 19 (Die schöne Müllerin)

    Performer: Justus Zeyen. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 19.
  • Nino Rota

    Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze (Overture)

    Orchestra: Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Squeo.
    • Capriccio.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Introduction and Rondo, Op 72

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "With Darkness Deep, as Is My Woe" (Theodora)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Fantasie-ballet (Namouna)

    Performer: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kees Bakels.
    • Lalo - Concerto Russe; Piano Concerto etc..
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite: Philharmonia/Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Da mihi auxilium

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 4.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Daniele Rosina.
    • Labyrinths.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondino in E flat major for wind octet, WoO 25

    Ensemble: Albion Ensemble.
    • Hummel/Beethoven/Gluck: Wind Music: Albion Ensemble.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata K. 94

    Performer: Christoph Ullrich.
    • Tacet.
  • Dag Wirén

    Marcia (Serenade in C major, Op 11)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

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