Refresh your morning with classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
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.
1230 Album of the Week
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Edward Elgar
Salut d'Amour
Music Arranger: Julian Milone. Music Arranger: Julian Milone. Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Elgar: Cello Concerto: Natalie Clein.
- EMI Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.- The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Alfred Reed
A Festive Overture
Conductor: Captain Glen Jones.- Evolution.
- Clovelly Recordings.
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Ethel Smyth
String Quintet in E major Op.1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Joachim Griesheimer. Ensemble: Mannheimer Streichquartett.- CPO.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.- Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4.
- harmonia mundi.
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Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re
Sailors' Dance (The Red Poppy)
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.- Gliere: Symphony No.1 / The Red Poppy Suite.
- Chandos.
- 11.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`7
Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- LINN.
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L茅o Delibes
Mazurka (Copp茅lia)
Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
- Erato.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Cello Concerto (Longing)
Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.- String Paths.
- ECM NEW SERIES.
- 003.
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Robert L. Morris
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit (Lyric Suite)
Singer: Louise Toppin. Orchestra: Dvo艡谩k Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Julius P. Williams.- Heart on the Wall: African American Art Songs for Orchestra.
- Albany Records.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.26 in D, K537 "Coronation" - 3rd mvt: Allegretto
Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- Linn.
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Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite (Waltz)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Khachaturian: Piano Concerto etc..
- Chandos.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Can Sorrow Find Me?
Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.- Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
- Delphian Records.
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Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem - Selig sind
Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem.
- harmonia mundi.
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Luciano Berio
Ritirata notturna di Madrid
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.- ONDINE.
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Leonard Bernstein
Fancy Free (Opening Dance)
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Ruth Mense. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Joseph Maria Lacalle
Amapola
Lyricist: Luis G贸mez Escolar. Music Arranger: Albert Guinovart. Singer: Juan Diego Fl贸rez.- Juan Diego Fl贸rez - The Ultimate Collection.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Richard Strauss
Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome Op.54)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- Richard Strauss: Tone Poems.
- Warner Classics.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville (Overture)
Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Alexander Liebreich.- Rossini: Overtures: Munchener Kammerorchester/Liebreich.
- Sony Classical.
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Claude Debussy
L'isle joyeuse
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
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Reena Esmail
This Love Between Us "Prayers for Unity" (2nd mvt: Sikhism)
Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: Yale Schola Cantorum. Conductor: David Hill.- New England Choirworks.
- Hyperion.
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Richard Wagner
Elsa's Bridal Procession (Lohengrin)
Composer: Siegmund Goldhammer. Orchestra: Saxon Wind Philharmonic. Conductor: Thomas Clamor.- Philharmonic Profile 2010鈥�2018.
- Genuin.
- 601.
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Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid Suite
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- National Symphony Orchestra.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
arr. Hess: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Music Arranger: Myra Hess.- Spira, Spera.
- Signum Classics.
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John Barry
The Black Hole (main title)
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.- Film Music Masterworks - John Barry.
- Decca (UMO) (Classics).
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C (1st mvt)
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.- Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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John Dowland
Mrs Winter's Jump
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- BIS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty (complete).
- Chandos.
- 15.
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