
Classical soundtrack 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.
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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Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 (Magnificat anima mea)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Philips.
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Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater.
- LPO.
- 2.
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Johann Pachelbel
Suite no.6 in B flat
Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (Fragment)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Mozart & Contemporaries.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 5.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Danse villageoise (Suite Pastorale)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
- Mercury.
- 3.
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Trad.
Five sheep, four goats
Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Performer: Mads la Cour. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- dacapo.
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Darius Milhaud
Brazileira (Scaramouche Suite)
Performer: Stephen Coombs. Performer: Artur Pizarro.- Darius Milhaud - Music for Two Pianos.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Havanaise, Op 83
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major (1st mvt)
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No. 2.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Boreades (Contredanse très vive)
Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Pauline Viardot
Les Deux Roses (12 Melodies sur des poesies Russes)
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.- Chère Nuit.
- Chandos.
- 10.
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George de la Hèle
Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Agnus Dei II
Choir: El León de Oro. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- La Hèle: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & Works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Franz von Suppé
Light Cavalry (Overture)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Suppe: Overtures and marches: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
- 1.
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Edvard Grieg
Notturno (Lyric Pieces, Op.54)
Performer: Eva Knardahl.- Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Books 5-7: Knardahl.
- BIS.
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Christopher Simpson
The Monthes: January
Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.- Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I.
- Alpha Classics.
- 3.
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Max Reger
Scherzo Op.65 No.10
Performer: Gillian Weir.- Koss Classics.
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Richard Strauss
Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, TrV 233.
- Orfeo.
- 2.
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Niccolò Paganini
Theme and Variations in A minor, Op 1 No 24
Performer: Julia Fischer.- Paganini, 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
- Decca.
- 24.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Schafe können sicher weiden (Cantata No 208)
Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.- Bach: Cantatas Nos. 82, 202 "Wedding" & 208 "Hunt".
- Hyperion.
- 24.
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Percy Grainger
Sheep and Goat (Walkin' to the Pasture)
Music Arranger: John Philip Sousa. Ensemble: Royal College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.- Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 19.
- Naxos.
- 701.
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George Frideric Handel
Acis & Galatea: "The Flocks shall leave the mountain"
Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Singer: Alan Ewing. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.- ERATO.
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Darius Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit
Performer: Jack Gibbons. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Carnaval D'Aix - Carnaval De Londres etc New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
- Hyperion.
- 45.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
24 Preludes in Jazz Style Op.53 (no.19)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- Hyperion.
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Jeremiah Clarke
Trumpet voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's March)
Music Arranger: Peter Hurford. Ensemble: Michael Laird Brass Ensemble. Performer: Peter Hurford.- Trumpet Voluntary.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Chandos.
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Henry Purcell
Remember not, Lord, our offences
Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.- RICERCAR.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
- ERATO.
- 12.
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Percy Grainger
Handel In The Strand
Performer: Martin Jones.- Percy Grainger - Piano Favourites.
- Nimbus.
- 1.
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Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B Minor Op.61 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.- Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61.
- Warner Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
Se pieta di me non senti (Giulio Cesare)
Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.- ERATO.
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Johann Strauss II
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025.
- Sony Classical.
- 4.
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Chengqian Xue
Caprice
Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.- China Song.
- Delos.
- 8.
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Gustav Holst
Beni Mora Op.29`1 (In the street of the Ouled Nails)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
- Chandos.
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Manuel Ponce
Scherzino mexicano
Performer: Carlos Bonell.- The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
- Upbeat Classics.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 3 (1st mvt)
Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 3.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 4.
Broadcast
- Tue 21 Jan 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3