Great classical music 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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Leonard Bernstein
Mambo (West Side Story)
Conductor: Marin Alsop. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.- Bernstein: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Suite, Slava!, CBS Music & A Bernstein Birth.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- DECCA.
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- BR Klassik.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaïde)
Singer: Christine Schäfer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart: Arias & R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - Schafer, Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 5.
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Gustav Holst
St Paul's Suite Op 29`2 (Finale; The Dargason)
Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Rees.- Wilson: St Kentigern Suite: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Rees.
- Virgin Classics.
- 23.
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Philip Wilby
Into the Light
Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.- WORLD WIND MUSIC.
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Bernard Herrmann
North by Northwest (main title)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.- DECCA.
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Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
Nisi Dominus (Vespers)
Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro.- NAIVE.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in E major Wq.182`6
Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- The World of Vaughan Williams.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Daniel Purcell
Morpheus thou gentle god
Singer: Helen Charlston. Ensemble: Sounds Baroque.- If the Fates allow.
- BIS.
- 1301.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat major, H XVI 46, 'Divertimento' (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.- Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
- 8.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Zapateado
Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.- Simply Sarah.
- EMI.
- 14.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
- 304.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No 8 (5th mvt)
Ensemble: Casals Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Dana Suesse
Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.- Jazz Nocturne.
- Naxos.
- 009.
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Joseph Haydn
The Creation (In the beginning...)
Singer: Neal Davies. Singer: Mark Padmore. Choir: Chetham's Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Haydn: The Creation.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 2.
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Benjamin Britten
Young Apollo, Op.16
Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.- HYPERION.
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Thomas Tallis
O nata lux de lumine
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- HYPERION.
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Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.- ERATO.
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Frederick Loewe
Wouldn't it be Loverly (My Fair Lady)
Singer: Ciara Hendrick. Choir: ѿý Singers. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Park. -
Jules Massenet
Le Cid - ballet suite (Aubade; Castillane; Andalouse; Aragonaise)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS.
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Marin Marais
La Reveuse (from Suitte d'un gout etranger [Book 4 part 2 no.7])
Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Marianna Martines
Harpsichord Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.- deutsche harmonia mundi.
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Gerald Finzi
Bagatelle No 3, 'Carol', for clarinet and piano, Op 23
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- The Lyrical Clarinet.
- Chandos.
- 6.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem: Agnus Dei; Lux aeterna; Libera me
Singer: Ľuba Orgonášová. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Luca Canonici. Singer: Alastair Miles. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Verdi: Requiem/Quattro Pezzi Sacri.
- PHILIPS.
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Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra Vol.4: Royal Northern College of Music Wind O.
- Chandos.
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Hugo Wolf
Goethe-Lieder: No 29, Anakreons Grab
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Florian Boesch.- Brahms & Wolf: Lieder.
- Linn Records.
- 16.
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George Walker
Trombone Concerto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.- BIS.
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Gabriel Fauré
Élégie Op.24
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.- Faure: Cello Sonatas: Alban Gerhardt , Cecile Licad.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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David Kellner
Fantasia in A minor
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- BIS.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 (4th mvt)
Performer: Nelson Freire. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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- Fri 11 Jul 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3