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The best classical morning music

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

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

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

  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Don Rose. Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Gershwin: Works for piano and orchestra: Aalborg Symphony/Marshall.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music: Suite in F major, HWV 348 (Air)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 5.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No 4 in E flat major, Op 48 (2nd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 110 in A major

    Performer: Nicolas Stavy.
    • Hortus.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 (3rd mvt, Allegro giocoso)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartok: Violin Concerto No.1.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Suite (No 3, Suffolk Morris)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Quintet in E flat major, K 407 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Stephen Bell. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Oboe Quartet/Horn Quintet: The Lindsays.
    • ASV.
    • 9.
  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    The little train of the caipira (Bachiana brasileira no.2)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Minczuk.
    • Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 1.
    • Bis.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (2 Elegiac melodies Op.34)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (2nd mvmt, Un Bal)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: LSO/Sir Colin Davis.
    • LSO Live.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Traumglück (Dreamt Happiness)

    Performer: Cord Garben. Singer: Ingeborg Danz.
    • CPO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Suite (No 3, Suffolk Morris)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • Scott Joplin

    Magnetic Rag

    Performer: Marilyn Nonken.
    • Syncopated Musings.
    • Divine Art.
    • 501.
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero

    Symphony No 1, 'in four movements, like the four seasons' (1st mvmt, Quasi andante - Sereno)

    Orchestra: The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorák: Slavonic Dances Opp. 46 & 72.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Overture (Lalla Rookh)

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Emilie Godden.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Suite (No 3, Suffolk Morris)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • Trad.

    The Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Naxos.
  • Imogen Holst

    Leiston Suite (No 2, Jig)

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Onyx Brass Plays Fanfares.
    • Chandos.
    • 35.
  • Trad.

    Lanigan's Ball

    Performer: Christy Moore. Music Arranger: Christy Moore.
    • The Early Years: 1969 - 81.
    • Universal Music Ireland Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Katie Moss

    The Floral Dance

    Performer: Brighouse and Rastrick Band. Music Arranger: Derek Broadbent. Conductor: Derek Broadbent.
    • The Best of Brass.
    • Crimson.
    • 1.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Christina Bjørkøe.
    • Das Jahr - 12 Charakterstücke für Klavier.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    L'Amant anonyme (Ballet Music No 1)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TAFELMUSIK.
  • Aaron Copland

    Morning on the Ranch (The Red Pony)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Copland: Four dances from Rodeo: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/Falletta.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary)

    Performer: Ronald Smith.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25: Ronald Smith.
    • Nimbus.
    • 12.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Springtime in Funen

    Singer: Kirsten Hermansen. Singer: Kurt Westi. Singer: Ib Hansen. Choir: Zahle School Girls Choir. Choir: Københavns Drengekor. Choir: Danish Radio Choir. Orchestra: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mogens Wöldike.
    • Philips.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestrator: Jim Gray. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka (The Bartered Bride)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 (4th mvmt, Allegro)

    Ensemble: Ariel Quartet.
    • Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 208.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in F major, RV 488 (2nd mvmt, Largo)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Ensemble: L'Aura Soave Cremona. Director: Diego Cantalupi.
    • NAIVE.
  • Jenny McLeod

    Three Celebrations (No 3, A&P Show)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Uwe Grodd.
    • McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Donna McKevitt

    Go To The Limits Of Your Longing

    • The Swimming Diaries.
    • Instant Karma Classics.
    • 7.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Danse Macabre: Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

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