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The best classical morning 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 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

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.

1230 Album of the Week.

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Tue 29 Jul 2025 09:30
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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 1.

  • Manuel de Falla

    4 Piezas espanolas: No. 4. Andaluza

    Composer: Tadeu do Amaral. Ensemble: Quartzo - Quarteto de Viol玫es.
    • Spanish Dances (Arr. Tadeu do Amaral for Guitar Quartet).
    • Delos.
    • 104.

  • Kod谩ly Zolt谩n

    Dances of Marossz茅k

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Kod谩ly: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 21.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 016.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano (No 1, Prelude)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Michael Nyman

    The garden is becoming a robe room (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band.
    • The Essential Michael Nyman Band.
    • ARGO.
    • 3.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Die stille Stadt (5 Songs)

    Singer: Olena Tokar. Performer: Igor Gryshyn.
    • Charmes.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 'La campanella' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Rudolf Koelman. Orchestra: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Wind serenade in D minor Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak: Blaserserenaden.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia no.5 in B flat major Z.736

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Widerstehe doch der S眉nde (Cantata, BWV.54)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.

  • 罢谤盲诲

    Waulking Song (Arr. for Vocal Ensemble by Pauline Langlois de Swarte)

    Music Arranger: Pauline Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les Itin茅rantes. Director: Thierry Gomar.
    • Origines.
    • Mirare.
    • 103.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Root (The Evergreen)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Caroline Shaw: Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 10.

  • Josef Suk

    Symphony in E major, Op 14 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Chandos.

  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Surge, propera, amica mea

    Choir: Balthasar鈥怤eumann鈥怌hor. Ensemble: Balthasar鈥怤eumann鈥怑nsemble. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die No 1 in D major

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony, Op.4

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Sonata in G Minor: I. Allegro

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance 鈥� The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Pieces, Op.19 no. 4, Nocturne (Version for Cello & Orchestra)

    Performer: Narek Hakhnazaryan. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Tigran Hakhnazaryan.
    • Chant du menestrel.
    • Ars Produktion.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425

    Performer: Giovanni Scaramuzzino. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per mandolini: Europa Galante/Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 16-18.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Mazurkas Op.59 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio Sinfonico

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.

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