Refresh your morning with classical music
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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Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat in E flat major BWV.243a (Magnificat anima mea)
Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.- Linn.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto in E flat major K.365 for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Philips.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Presto in C major
Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.- NAIVE.
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Georges Bizet
Jeux d'enfants, Op 22 (La poupée)
Performer: John Ogdon. Performer: Brenda Lucas.- EMI.
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Benjamin Britten
Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Nos 3-5)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- Britten: Young Person's Guide etc. Britten/Bonynge.
- London.
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Clara Schumann
Am Strande (On the Shore)
Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.- This Be Her Verse.
- Alpha Classics.
- 3.
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Antonín Dvořák
Romance in F minor, Op 11
Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.- Dvorak - Anne-Sophie Mutter.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 004.
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Friedrich der Große
Sonata in E minor
Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Bob van Asperen.- From the Court of Frederick the Great.
- Sony Classical.
- 10-12.
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Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.- Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
- Dorian.
- 1.
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Thomas Campion
Follow thy fair sun
Singer: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Ariel Abramovich. Performer: Jacob Heringman.- Amores Pasados.
- ECM.
- 5.
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Clara Schumann
Am Strande (On the Shore)
Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.- This Be Her Verse.
- Alpha Classics.
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Dorothy Howell
Lamia
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- CHANDOS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No.5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": I. Allegro
Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Performer: Danny Driver.- Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2.
- RUBICON.
- 104.
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Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Alla Spagnola
Ensemble: Capella de Ministrers. Director: Carles Magraner.- Capella de Ministrers.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Brahms: Symphonies 1-4. Berliner Philharmoniker - Rattle.
- EMI.
- 2.
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Erik Satie
Sur un vaisseau (Descriptions automatiques)
Performer: Alan Marks.- Erik Satie: Collected Items From A Silent Dream.
- Decca.
- 5.
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Niel Gow
Lament for the death of his second wife
Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.- BIS.
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Geraldine Mucha
The Tempest Overture
Orchestra: Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser.- Macbeth And Other Orchestral Works.
- ARCO DIVA.
- 1.
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Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
- Chandos.
- 5.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.99 in E flat major, Hob.I:99 (1st mvt: Adagio - Vivace Assai)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.- Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99 & 102.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 1.
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George Gershwin
Lullaby
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Hyperion.
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Leonard Bernstein
Times Square, 1944 (3 Dance Episodes from 'On the Town')
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
- Naxos.
- 603.
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Frédéric Chopin
'Revolutionary study' Op.10 No.12 in C Minor
Performer: Nelson Goerner.- Chopin, Polonaise-Fantasie: Nelson Goerner.
- Wigmore Hall Live.
- 17.
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Helena Munktell
Dalsvit (Suite dalecarlienne) Op.22 for orchestra [complete]
Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.- STERLING.
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Robert Lucas Pearsall
Lay a Garland
Lyricist: Francis Beaumont. Lyricist: John Fletcher. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- A Prayer for Deliverance.
- Signum Classics.
- 9.
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Richard Addinsell
Warsaw Concerto
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.- Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, ѿýSO, Hugh Wolff.
- Decca.
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Robert de Visée
Suite in D minor: Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte & Mascarade-Rondeau
Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.- Erato.
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Cécile Chaminade
Callirhoé, suite de ballet: IV. Pas des cymbales
Conductor: David Reiland. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz.- Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
- Bru Zane.
- 4.
Broadcast
- Tue 1 Jul 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3