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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in E flat major BWV.243a (Magnificat anima mea)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Linn.
  • 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.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • NAIVE.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants, Op 22 (La poupée)

    Performer: John Ogdon. Performer: Brenda Lucas.
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • Clara Schumann

    Am Strande (On the Shore)

    Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.
    • This Be Her Verse.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Thomas Campion

    Follow thy fair sun

    Singer: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Ariel Abramovich. Performer: Jacob Heringman.
    • Amores Pasados.
    • ECM.
    • 5.
  • Clara Schumann

    Am Strande (On the Shore)

    Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.
    • This Be Her Verse.
    • Alpha Classics.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Lamia

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • 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.
  • Joan Ambrosio Dalza

    Alla Spagnola

    Ensemble: Capella de Ministrers. Director: Carles Magraner.
    • Capella de Ministrers.
  • 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.
  • Erik Satie

    Sur un vaisseau (Descriptions automatiques)

    Performer: Alan Marks.
    • Erik Satie: Collected Items From A Silent Dream.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Niel Gow

    Lament for the death of his second wife

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • BIS.
  • Geraldine Mucha

    The Tempest Overture

    Orchestra: Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser.
    • Macbeth And Other Orchestral Works.
    • ARCO DIVA.
    • 1.
  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • 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.
  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • 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.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Revolutionary study' Op.10 No.12 in C Minor

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Chopin, Polonaise-Fantasie: Nelson Goerner.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 17.
  • Helena Munktell

    Dalsvit (Suite dalecarlienne) Op.22 for orchestra [complete]

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • STERLING.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a Garland

    Lyricist: Francis Beaumont. Lyricist: John Fletcher. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • Robert de Visée

    Suite in D minor: Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte & Mascarade-Rondeau

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Erato.
  • 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 09:30