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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, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Jun 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Havanaise

    Performer: Yoâ€Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Paris La Belle Epoque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Dolce Cantavi

    Performer: TENET.
    • The Secret Lovers.
    • Avie.
    • 13.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major RV.558

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op.129, 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • VOXBOX.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101 no.7

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 3 in C sharp major

    Ensemble: Trio SR9.
    • Naive.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Gondellied (Songs Op.1)

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn - Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Niccolò 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.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzone a tre cori

    Music Arranger: Bruno Maderna. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • ECM.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    String quartet No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Apres un reve

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • BLUE CLOUD MUSIC.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major H.15.25 'Gypsy rondo' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios Nos. 24-27: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 006.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op.10 no.12 'Revolutionary'

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Hölle Rache (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Dudley Moore

    And The Same To You

    Performer: Dudley Moore Trio.
    • British Comedy Classics.
    • EMI.
  • Andrea Falconiero

    Battaglia de Barabasso yerno de Satanas

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Samuel Barber

    The School for Scandal Op.5

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Three Shanties for wind quintet (No 3)

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Jaime Martín. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Claire Briggs. Performer: Susanna Cohen.
    • Arnold: Complete Works for Clarinet: Emma Johnson.
    • ASV.
    • 6.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Nunc Dimittis

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Pärt: Tintinnabuli.
    • Gimell.
    • 010.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante and Variations in G major, K 501

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Hary Janos - suite (Song)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite - Dances of Galanta...: BFO, Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Felicissima quest'alma (Apollo e Dafne)

    Singer: Christiane Karg. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • DHM.
  • Frank Bridge

    Pensiero in F Minor, H. 53 No. 1

    • A Lionel Tertis Celebration.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danza espanola No 1 (La vida breve)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • RCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse Lente [2 Pieces for piano]

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Ondine.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Jun 2024 09:30

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