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Great classical music for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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

Wed 17 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.5 in G minor)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Havanaise

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • TELDEC.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 14 in A major, K 114 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ãdám Fischer.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Vol.4: Adam Fischer.
    • Dacapo.
  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Gentlemen of St John’s. Director: Christopher Robinson.
    • Music for Men's Voices.
    • Priory.
    • 5.
  • Aaron Copland

    An Outdoor Adventure

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Copland: Symphonies Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe, violin & strings (BWV.1060) in C minor - Adagio

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle in D flat major, Op.96

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Königskinder - Concert Overture

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music: Bamberger Symphoniker/Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 4.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Leó Weiner

    Divertimento no.1 Op.20

    Orchestra: Budapesti Vonósok.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • BIS: 2109 SACD.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Leos JanáÄek

    Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Sky above the Roof

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • Chandos.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Alpha.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pas des écharpes (Suite for piano)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Maurizio Cazzati

    Ciaccona

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • All'Improviso.
    • ALPHA.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Nacht, D.983C

    Performer: Josephine Knight. Lyricist: Friedrich Adolf Krummacher. Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Schubert Reimagined.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 109.
  • George Gershwin

    Concerto in F (3rd mvt, Allegro agitato)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.
  • Leos JanáÄek

    The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite

    Music Arranger: Václav Talich. Music Arranger: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni à 12, C183

    Music Arranger: Eric Crees. Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Cathedral Brass: London Symphony Brass/Crees.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 9.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No.2

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Matinée de Provence

    Choir: Choeur de l'ONPL. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Singer: Clarisse Dalles. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Ravel: Cantates pour le Prix de Rome.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Dargason (St Paul's Suite)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D minor RV.235

    Performer: Julien Chauvin. Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge.
    • NAIVE.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Etude op.42 no.5

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Freedom)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

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  • Wed 17 Jul 2024 09:30

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