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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

  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.21 in C major Op.53 'Waldstein' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scherzo (Souvenir d'un lieu cher)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Linn.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Flipside Music.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Allegretto moderato for 2 cellos

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: David Waterman.
    • RCA.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Singer: Soloists. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Boreades, Act IV: Gavottes pour les Heures et les Zephirs

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Piano Concerto etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Nattyxne [Butterfly Orchid]

    Performer: Paul Rivinius. Singer: Camilla Tilling.
    • BIS.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op 77 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 5.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op.43 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Carl Nielsen / Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintets.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1-4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ravel: Tzigane, Shehrazade, La Valse U.A..
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5 (3rd mvt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Charles Gounod

    Overture to Faust

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Maurizio Benini.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Cloud Capp'd Towers (Three Shakespeare Songs)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Nigel Short.
    • Signum Classics : SIGCD904.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nuages (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Cloudburst

    Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Stephen Betteridge. Performer: Robert Millett. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schön Rosmarin

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • The Romantic Violin: Joshua Bell.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Judith Weir

    The Welcome arrival of rain for orchestra (conclusion)

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.
  • Roland Dyens

    Tango en Skai

    Performer: Jacob Cordover.
    • CALA.
  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in D minor - Chaconne in F major

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Anna Bolena: "Al dolce guidami castel natio"

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Armstrong.
    • Duets & Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    貹ñ

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Piano Concerto

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Poulenc: Concertos for Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ALPHA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major, Op 40 No 1, 'Military'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Evening-Watch

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Marianna Martines

    Overture in C major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Conductor: Nicholeta Paraschivescu.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasia No 3 in F minor, TWV40:16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • Hyperion.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony no.5 in F minor)

    Performer: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Belart.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Jul 2025 09:30