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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

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3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Inganno Felice (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (3me Années de pèlerinage)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    On a cold winter's day

    Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla. Ensemble: Quadriga Consort.
    • On a cold winter's day.
    • Carpe Diem.
    • 12.
  • Wilhelm Fitzenhagen

    Concert Waltz Op.13

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Performer: Ingemar Brantelid. Performer: Henrik Dam Thomsen. Performer: Fredrik Sjölin.
    • 48 Strings: Music for 1, 2, 4 & 12 Cellos.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.
  • Julius Fucik

    Der alte Brummbär

    Performer: Jiri Formacek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21: V. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 - de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Impromptu in G flat major Op.51

    Performer: David Fray.
    • Chopin: Piano Works.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 110.
  • Peter Cornelius

    The Three Kings arr Atkins

    Music Arranger: Sir Ivor Atkins. Singer: Stephen Alder. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: James O’Donnell.
    • Adeste Fideles: Christmas music from Westminster Cathedral.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech Suite (Polka)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Warner Classics.
  • William Boyce

    Overture no.12 in G major

    Orchestra: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.
    • Boyce: Overtures and Concerti Grossi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Re-invention No. 2 For Tenor Recorder

    Performer: Genevieve Lacey. Music Arranger: Elena Kats‐Chernin. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.
    • Reinventions.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Prelude (Richard III)

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • The Walton Edition.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schon Rosmarin

    Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor K.466 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 27 and 20: Maria João Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op.129, 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • VOXBOX.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 13.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan

    Performer: Peter Wesley. Performer: Liivi Arder.
    • PDW.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Gian Carlo Menotti

    Suite from Amahl and the night visitors

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Heritage Records.
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda

    Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost (Three Ghost Rags)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • Devil's Dance: Gil Shaham.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartet (The Jovial One)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol 3.
    • Azica.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37a: I. January. At the Fireside

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    Videntes stellam magi

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Year at King's: Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • The Kristjan Järvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

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  • Mon 6 Jan 2025 09:30

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