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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.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 8 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les Biches)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Signum.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, Op 9 No 1

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Chopin: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Celebration Dance)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Roald Dahl).
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 20.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in G major Op.2`12 (Ciacona)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Latina. Director: Giordano Antonelli.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 88875174822.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Nancy Gustavson

    Great Day

    Performer: Emily Granger.
    • In Transit.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 12.
  • Pedro Etienne Solere

    Clarinet Concerto in B major, 'Concerto Espagnol' (3rd mvmt, Polacca)

    Performer: Dieter Klöcker. Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Milan Lajcik.
    • The Art of Clarinet.
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (Agnus Dei II)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool (ballet music)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (3rd mvt, Menuetto)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Jens Vejmand (Jens the Roadmender)

    Performer: Holger Lund Christiansen. Singer: Aksel Schiotz.
    • DANACORD.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky.
    • Universal Music Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Nancy Gustavson

    Great Day

    Performer: Emily Granger.
    • In Transit.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 12.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Passacaille (Céphale et Procris)

    Ensemble: A Nocte Temporis. Conductor: Reinoud Van Mechelen.
    • Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Beethoven: Overture, Fidelio & Symphony No. 3.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 105.
  • Craig Armstrong

    Romeo and Juliet (Balcony Scene)

    Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Pure... Movies.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 16.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Trio in C major, Op 29 (1st mvmt, Allegro con moto)

    Ensemble: Trio RoVerde.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Tielman Susato

    Ronde no.11 [Danserye, 1551]

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • David Munrow: Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries.
    • Testament.
    • 11.
  • Nancy Gustavson

    Great Day

    Performer: Emily Granger.
    • In Transit.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 12.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

    Singer: Gordon MacRae. Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Conductor: Jay Blackton.
    • Oklahoma!.
    • Capitol.
    • 2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of Carols (This little babe)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Performer: Sioned Williams. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Hyperion.
  • Julian Nott

    A Grand Day Out

    Performer: Julian Nott.
    • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Original Motion Picture Soundtra.
    • Varese Sarabande.
    • 1.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto, Op 74 (3rd mvmt, Allegro giocoso)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • SONY.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    6 Favourite Waltzes (No 4 in A major)

    Performer: Michael Endres.
    • Weber: Piano Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 4.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 3 No 1 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Linda Melsted. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TAFELMUSIK.
  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Ondine.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Wind Serenade in D Minor Op.44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Dvorák: Serenades for Strings and Winds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.
  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (2nd mvt, Adagio cantabile)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tippett.
    • Tippett Conducts Tippett.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 27).
    • Hyperion.
    • 4-6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fantasiestücke, Op 5 (No 3, Humoresque)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si può fare

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Céline Scheen. Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Che si può fare.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Bassoon Concertino in B flat major (3rd mvmt, Polacca)

    Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Karen Geoghegan Plays Works for Bassoon and Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major (2nd mvt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Folk Dances, Op 17

    Performer: Håvard Gimse.
    • NAIM.
  • Jenny McLeod

    Three Celebrations (No 3, A & P Show)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Uwe Grodd.
    • McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

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  • Mon 8 Jul 2024 09:30

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