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The best classical morning music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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.

1100 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 6 May 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Great Escape (main theme)

    Music Arranger: James Langley. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Raine.
    • Film Music Gala: A Celebration of the Greatest Film Music Ever Written.
    • RPO.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
  • Hans G谩l

    Piano Concerto Op.57 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Beth Briggs. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Kenneth Woods.
    • Avie.
  • Stefano Landi

    Augellin

    Music Arranger: Clare O'Connell. Performer: Clare O'Connell.
    • The Isolated Cellist.
    • Stone Records.
    • 11.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin Op.15 no.2

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jane Berthe. Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester.
    • Belle 脡poque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Miriam Hyde

    Village Fair

    Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dobbs Franks.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the priest - coronation anthem no. 1 HWV.258

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.96 in D major H.1.96 'Miracle' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Scott Joplin

    Fig Leaf Rag

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov

    Do not cast me off in my old age, Op 40 No 5

    Singer: Glenn Miller. Choir: Conspirare. Conductor: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major RV.181a

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Holland Baroque Society.
    • Channel.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'Coronation' Mass K.317 (Agnus Dei)

    Singer: Carolina Ullrich. Singer: Marie Henriette Reinhold. Singer: Angelo Pollak. Singer: Konstantin Krimmel. Choir: WDR Radio Chorus, Cologne. Orchestra: K枚lner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Christoph Poppen.
    • W.A. Mozart: Complete Masses, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Patience (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Franz Liszt

    Die Forelle (The Trout)

    Composer: Franz Schubert. Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Ll欧r Williams: Schubert, Vol. 8.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka (The Shrovetide Fair)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.
  • Percy Grainger

    Brigg Fair

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Choir: Joyful Company of Singers. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Trad.

    Scarborough Fair

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott. Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Songs of Comfort and Hope.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Morris: Ritmico (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Six Bagatelles (no.3)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos. Conductor: Amaury Viduvier.
    • Ligeti, Nielsen & Dvorak: Woodwind Quintets.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 103.
  • William Alwyn

    7 Irish Tunes

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • Lyrita.
  • Django Reinhardt

    Minor Swing

    Composer: St茅phane Grappelli. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • WARNER BROS RECORDS.
  • Craig Armstrong

    The Martyrdom Variations (Mvts 1-3)

    Composer: Calum Martin. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Singer: Isobel Ann Martin. Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Cecilia Weston.
    • The Edge of the Sea.
    • BMG.
  • Hubert Parry

    I Was Glad

    Music Arranger: John Rutter. Choir: The King鈥檚 Scholars of Westminster School. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Choir: Choir of the Chapel Royal. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast. Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Performer: Peter Holder. Ensemble: Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force. Orchestra: Coronation Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • The Official Album of The Coronation: The Service.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 2.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol.2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9-12.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Maurizo Pollini Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055 (Adapted for Oboe d'amore) iii

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Bach Generations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    The Meeting

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ballade in G minor, Op 118 No 3

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • Brahms: Works for solo piano: Barry Douglas.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 May 2024 09:30

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