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The best classical morning 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 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

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

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

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

1230 Album of the Week

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Air and variations, 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite in E major, HWV 430)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV.537

    Orchestrator: Edward Elgar. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Elgar: A Self Portrait: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in G major, Op 1 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Vienna Piano Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios Op.1, Nos. 2 and 3.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 4.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted Lake, Op.62

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works.
    • Oehms Classics.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Classical Hits: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Dag Wir茅n

    Marcia (Serenade in C major, Op 11)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Robert Schumann

    My Rose (Op 90, No 2)

    Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Anna Tilbrook.
    • A Gardener's World - Flowers in Song.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Romance in F minor Op.11

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • The Teldec Recordings: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Teldec.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted lake [Volshebnoye ozero] - symphonic poem Op.62

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Les amusements (3 Studies from Couperin)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia No 6 in F major

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Jacques Ibert

    3 Pieces breves

    Performer: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted lake [Volshebnoye ozero] - symphonic poem Op.62

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.

  • Michael Tippett

    The Rose Lake: XI. The Lake Sings Itself to Sleep; XII Calm

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Tippett: The Rose Lake & The Vision of St. Augustine.
    • Catalyst.
    • 11.

  • Franz Liszt

    Au lac de Wallenstadt (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage, 1er ann茅e Suisse)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    The Lake Isle

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Performer: Kristian Kvalvaag. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Ciaran McCabe. Performer: Jon Thorne. Performer: Matthew Sharp.
    • Decca.

  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Caprice in C major, Op 1 No 11

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • Paganini, 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • William Walton

    Death of Falstaff; Touch her soft lips (Henry V)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius, Zukerman, Black, ECO, Barneboim.
    • Deustche Grammophon.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Cello Sonata No 2 in D major, Op 58 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Richard Lester. Performer: Susan Tomes.
    • Mendelssohn: Complete music for cello and piano: Lester/Tomes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Kod谩ly Zolt谩n

    Dances of Galanta

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.118 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 106; 118/231; 198.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 25 No 12

    Performer: Ronald Smith.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25: Ronald Smith.
    • Nimbus.
    • 24.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Coronation Procession

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.38 in D major K.504 'Prague' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36, 38, 40, 41.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.

  • Duarte L么bo

    Audivi vocem

    Ensemble: The Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    Les Patineurs, Op 183

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • European light music classics: New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

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