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Refresh your morning with classical 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 4 Nov 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no. 3 in E flat, K.447 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • Mozart y Mambo.
    • Alpha.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Gondoliers : Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Sullivan: Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Billy Mayerl

    Song of the Fir Tree - a Swedish Impression

    Performer: Phillip Dyson.
    • Billy Mayerl: The Nimble Fingered Gentleman: Philip Dyson.
    • ASV.
    • 16.
  • Steve Reich

    Mallet Quartet (Fast)

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • 105.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale Op.31

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 05.
  • Anton Karas

    The Third Man - Harry Lime theme

    Performer: Anton Karas.
    • Paradiso.
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Capriccio in A Minor

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • ë.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 (Magnificat anima mea)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Introduction et polonaise brillante Op.3

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • DECCA.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    O cessate di piagarmi (from Il Pompeo)

    Performer: György Fischer. Lyricist: Nicolò Minato. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Cecilia Bartoli - Arie Antiche: Se tu m'ami.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 4 (Autochthonous): 3rd movement; With a graceful lilt

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.
  • Joachim Raff

    Romeo and Juliet - overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anonymous

    Der Makam-I Huseyni (Livre de la science de la musique)

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Istanbul - Dimitre Cantemir: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 11.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Valse-caprice No 2 in D flat major, Op 38

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Anna Cawrse

    Songs Without Words (Lied)

    Ensemble: Benaud Trio.
    • Women of Note vol 3.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 2.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc Dimittis (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)

    Singer: Paul Phoenix. Performer: James Watson. Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble.
    • Guild.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325

    Performer: Anton Karas. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Quincy Jones

    Soul Bossa Nova

    Orchestra: Quincy Jones and His Orchestra.
    • Mercury.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Trent'Anni A Roma.
    • Naive.
    • 11.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Morgenblatter, Op. 279

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Classical Welcome to 2022.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 13.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Chanson perpétuelle Op.37

    Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ema Nikolovska. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
  • André Caplet

    Quintet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Minuet)

    Ensemble: London Collegiate Brass. Conductor: James Stobart.
    • Walton/Tippett/Britten/Ireland: London Collegiate Brass/Stobart.
    • CRD.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Cadiz (Suite espanola)

    Ensemble: Katia Labèque. Ensemble: Marielle Labèque.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Ernesto Lecuona

    La Comparsa

    Music Arranger: Jorge Aragón. Ensemble: The Sarahbanda. Conductor: Sarah Willis.
    • Sarahbanda.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 8.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G major for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo TWV:43:G6

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • Telemann: Overtures, Sonatas, Concertos: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.
    • 16.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    Frensham Pond

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: James Cryer.
    • The English Clarinet.
    • Naxos.
    • 18.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony no.1 in D major (3rd mvt)

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

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  • Mon 4 Nov 2024 09:30

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