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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 11 Jul 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Philip Wilby

    Into the Light

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • WORLD WIND MUSIC.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    North by Northwest (main title)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.
    • DECCA.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Nisi Dominus (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro.
    • NAIVE.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E major Wq.182`6

    Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The World of Vaughan Williams.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Daniel Purcell

    Morpheus thou gentle god

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Ensemble: Sounds Baroque.
    • If the Fates allow.
    • BIS.
    • 1301.
  • 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.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah.
    • EMI.
    • 14.
  • 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.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No 8 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Marianna Martines

    Harpsichord Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Bagatelle No 3, 'Carol', for clarinet and piano, Op 23

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    • 8.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Goethe-Lieder: No 29, Anakreons Grab

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Florian Boesch.
    • Brahms & Wolf: Lieder.
    • Linn Records.
    • 16.
  • George Walker

    Trombone Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Élégie Op.24

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • Faure: Cello Sonatas: Alban Gerhardt , Cecile Licad.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • David Kellner

    Fantasia in A minor

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Nelson Freire. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Jul 2025 09:30