Refresh your morning with classical 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 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.
1230 Album of the Week.
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Samuel Barber
Agnus Dei
Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.- COLLINS CLASSICS.
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Nino Rota
Nonetto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Daishin Kashimoto. Performer: Joaqu铆n Riguelme Garc铆a. Performer: Claudio Boh贸rquez. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Fran莽ois Meyer. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Beno卯t de Barsony. Performer: Olivier Thiery.- Nino Rota: Chamber Music.
- Alpha.
- 9.
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Helen Hopekirk
Iona Memories: 4th mvt, A Twilight Tale
Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.- Hopekirk: Piano Works.
- Toccata Classics.
- 4.
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Johann Melchior Molter
Concerto pastorale
Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.- Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
- Sony Classical.
- 5.
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Malcolm Arnold
4 English dances - set 2 Op.33 (no.1)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
- Chandos.
- 5.
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Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Performer: Catrin Finch. Ensemble: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.- Highland Spirit.
- Decca.
- 20-22.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 27 No 1, 'Quasi una fantasia'
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp.26, 27 & 49.
- EMI Classics.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Partita - 1712 no. 3 in A major (Ciacona)
Performer: Meret L眉thi. Ensemble: Les Passions de l鈥櫭俶e.- Spicy, "Exotic" Music for violin.
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 36.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Habanera
Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.- WARNER ELATUS.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe
Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.- Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets - 3: Daneman, Connolly, Padmore, Loges, Asti.
- Hyperion.
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Eug猫ne Ysa每e
Variations on Paganini's Caprice no.24
Music Arranger: Jacques Ysa每e. Ensemble: Ensemble Capriccio.- Orchid Classics.
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Op.80
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- CHANNEL.
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William Byrd
Mass for 5 voices (Credo)
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.- The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
- Gimell.
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Louise Farrenc
Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.32 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.- ERATO.
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Old Blind Dogs
The Buzzard
Ensemble: Old Blind Dogs.- LOCHSHORE.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577
Performer: Peter Hurford.- J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
- HMV Classics.
- 4.
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Alice Coltrane
Wisdom Eye
Performer: Alina Bzhezhinska.- Eternity.
- Warner Bros. Records.
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Granville Bantock
Celtic Symphony (4th and 5th mvts)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies, The Witch of Atlas: RPO/Handley.
- Hyperion.
- 4-5.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- BIS.
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Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Autumn)
Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Ernest John Moeran
Piano Trio in D major (2nd mvt: Lento)
Ensemble: Joachim Piano Trio.- Moeran: The 2 String Quartets; Fantasy-Quartet; Piano Trio.
- Decca (UMO).
- 8.
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Alberto Ginastera
Malambo (Estancia Op.8a)
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV.645
Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Murray Perahia.- Songs Without Words: Murray Perahia.
- Sony Classical.
- 1.
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Michel鈥怰ichard de Lalande
Te Deum
Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Arlette Steyer. Singer: Jean-Paul Fouch茅court. Singer: Fran莽ois Piolino. Singer: J茅r么me Corr茅as. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.- Delalande / Te Deum / Les Arts Florissants / Christie.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
M茅ditation from Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42
Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova. -
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Orlando Gibbons
Go from my window
Ensemble: Fretwork.- My Days.
- Signum Classics.
- 16.
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Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - II. Ging heut' Morgen 眉bers Feld
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- SFS MEDIA.
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Robert Schumann
Papillons, Op 2 (No 12, Finale)
Performer: Boris Giltburg.- Naxos.
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Joseph Haydn
Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Solo E Pensoso.
- Alpha.
- 5.
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