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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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1200 鈥�25 for 25: Sounds of the Century鈥� 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

1230 Album of the Week.

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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Performer: Clemens Flick.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 22-23.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: IV. Allegro, ma non troppo

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Ensemble: Artemis Quartet.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Schumann.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92 (3rd movement)

    Performer: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Robert Trevi帽o.
    • Ondine.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan Op.59

    Performer: Bill Anderson. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American": III. Humor. Animato

    Conductor: Kellen Gray. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • African American Voices.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 (3rd mvmt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Abbado: Brahms.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 110.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sur l'herbe

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Horn Concerto No.2 in D major; 1. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: W眉rttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Ruben Gazarian.
    • Horn Concertos.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 4.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria

    Ensemble: Sansara. Director: Benjamin Cunningham.
    • RESONUS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet no.1 in A minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • Louise Farrenc: The Two Piano Quintets.
    • ASV.
    • 03.

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea (Moonlight)

    Performer: Janice Graham. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works: Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Henry Purcell

    They that go down to the sea in ships Z.57

    Singer: David Thomas. Singer: Matthew Bright. Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Gnome (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni.
    • Il Tenore.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse. Performer: Andrew Harley. Performer: Mary Ashley Barret. Performer: Michael Burns. Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Lynn Huntzinger Beck.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 9.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Poulenc: La voix humaine.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 24.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: I. Allegro

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 1 (Op.1a)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Elgar: The Wand of Youth etc..
    • EMI.
    • 1-7.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Aurora Borealis

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Naomi Woo.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite - Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro & Harpsichord Co.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 114.

  • Martin Berteau

    Sonata a tre No. 6 Op. 1, 2nd mvt: Siciliana

    • A French Odyssey - Music for Two Cellos by Rameau, Barriere, Corrette, Boismorti.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 8.

  • Lili Boulanger

    La Source

    Performer: Antonii Baryshevskyi. Choir: Orpheus Vokalensemble. Conductor: Michael Alber.
    • Lili Boulanger: Hymne au Soleil. Chorwerke.
    • Carus.
    • 3.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major for two horns, 'Die Jagd' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hermann Baumann. Performer: Radovan Vlatkovi膰. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Philips.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.2 Op.22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.

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