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A classical soundtrack 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.

1230 Album of the Week.

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3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Idylle sur la paix, LWV 68: Overture

    Conductor: Robert Mealy. Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble.
    • Lully: Idylle sur la paix, LWV 68 - Charpentier, M.-A: La fête de rueil, H. 485.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet (Balcony Scene)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Abbado A-Z: Prokofiev – Ravel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 55.
  • Charles Wood

    This joyful Eastertide

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Director: John Scott.
    • Passiontide at St Paul's: The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, John Scott.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano concerto in G (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: Howard Snell.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Dance (Othello Suite)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fairest Isle (King Arthur)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Barbara Bonney - Fairest Isle.
    • Decca.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Mikado (Overture)

    Orchestra: The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 6.
  • Franz Liszt

    Etudes d'execution transcendante S.139 for piano; No 12, Chasse neige

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Myrios.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV439 'La notte'

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Ensemble: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players.
    • Decca.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Sancte Deus, sancte fortis

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • A Tudor Collection: The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Saxophone Concerto Op.59 'Cyber-bird' (Bird in the Wind)

    Performer: Nobuya Sugawa. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Yoshimatsu: Symphony No. 3 - Saxophone Concerto.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Tonight (West Side Story)

    Singer: Marni Nixon. Singer: Jimmy Bryant. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • Columbia.
  • Glenn Miller

    Moonlight Serenade

    Orchestra: Glenn Miller Orchestra.
    • In The Mood – The Definitive Moonlight Collection.
    • Bluebird.
    • 20.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth & Final Chorus (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Catherine Bott. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • The Glory of Purcell: Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major for wind octet, K 375 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Holliger Wind Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 12.
  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of spring Op.32 no.3

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Norwegian Classical Favourites: Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Engeset.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G major BWV.572

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Bach: Toccata and Fugue BWV 565: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Judith Bingham

    The Drowned Lovers

    Choir: Tenebrae. Singer: Martha McLorinan. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux - poème danse

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • 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.
  • William Walton

    Battle in the Air (Battle of Britain Suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Walton: Battle of Britain Suite etc.: ASMF/Marriner.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.
  • Gabriel Dupont

    A la Nuit

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Performer: Tristan Raës.
    • Gabriel Dupont: The Complete Songs.
    • 貹é.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.71`3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op 71: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle; The Fairie-round

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Music for Viols.
    • Virgo.
    • 13-14.
  • Eric Coates

    Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

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