
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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John Stanley
Trumpet Voluntary
Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.- Sony Classical.
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Gioachino Rossini
L'Inganno Felice (Overture)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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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.
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Trad.
On a cold winter's day
Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla. Ensemble: Quadriga Consort.- On a cold winter's day.
- Carpe Diem.
- 12.
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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.
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Julius Fucik
Der alte Brummbär
Performer: Jiri Formacek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.- WARNER APEX.
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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.
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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.
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Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu in G flat major Op.51
Performer: David Fray.- Chopin: Piano Works.
- Erato/Warner Classics.
- 110.
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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.
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Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite (Polka)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.- Warner Classics.
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William Boyce
Overture no.12 in G major
Orchestra: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.- Boyce: Overtures and Concerti Grossi.
- Chandos.
- 3.
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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.
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William Walton
Prelude (Richard III)
Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.- The Walton Edition.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Fritz Kreisler
Schon Rosmarin
Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.- The Golden Age.
- DECCA.
- 8.
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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.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op.129, 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- VOXBOX.
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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.
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Ruth Gipps
Leviathan
Performer: Peter Wesley. Performer: Liivi Arder.- PDW.
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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.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Suite from Amahl and the night visitors
Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.- Heritage Records.
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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.
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William Bolcom
The Graceful Ghost (Three Ghost Rags)
Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.- Devil's Dance: Gil Shaham.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C minor (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Les Vents Français.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Claude Debussy
Nocturnes
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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William Grant Still
Lyric Quartet (The Jovial One)
Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.- Uncovered, Vol 3.
- Azica.
- 6.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons, Op. 37a: I. January. At the Fireside
Performer: Bruce Liu.- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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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.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Takács Quartet.- Hyperion.
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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.
Broadcast
- Mon 6 Jan 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3