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Great classical music for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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.

1200 “25 for 25: Sounds of the Century” – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 27 Feb 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Shostakovich: Ballet Suites: Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 19.
  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer (Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet)

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Purcell: Theatre Music.
    • Decca.
    • 002.
  • Ludwig August Lebrun

    Oboe Concerto no.3 in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Ensemble: Camerata Bern. Conductor: Thomas Füri.
    • Oboe Concertos.
    • Archiv.
    • 9.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Upon Your Heart

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 13.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11; I. Allegro

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Amy Beach

    Masked Ball, Op.22

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie No 3 in A minor

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Pat Metheny

    Road to the Sun (Part 1)

    Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • Road to the Sun.
    • Modern Recordings/BMG.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello concerto in A minor, Wq.170 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • C P E Bach, Cello concertos.
    • HYPERION.
    • 001.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Violin Sonata No 1 in A major, Op 13 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathetique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • DECCA.
  • Amy Beach

    Masked Ball, Op.22

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Cupis (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.5)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 20.
  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan tutte

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Michele Pertusi. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Georg Solti. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte: London Voices/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Solti.
    • Decca.
    • 20.
  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Performer: Philip Glass. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • Columbia.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: Preludio

    Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 01.
  • François Couperin

    Pieces de clavecin, Sixieme ordre: No. 5, Les Barricades Mysterieuses

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • La Danse.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 2.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • OBRASSO.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2 - Fountain Dance

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 11.
  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 303.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet No. 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in B flat major, Op.7`3

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major, D.951

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osborne / Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Feb 2025 09:30

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