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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 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest

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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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Polonaise)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • EMI.

  • Jule Styne

    Let it snow

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Julian Lage. Performer: Rob Moose. Performer: Michael Aarons. Performer: William Holhouse. Music Arranger: Rob Moose. Singer: Chris Lightcap.
    • Musical Gifts From Joshua Bell and Friends.
    • Sony/Masterworks.
    • 2.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A Minor, RV 422

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Cappella Gabetta. Conductor: Andr茅s Gabetta.
    • Il Progetto Vivaldi 3.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Shepherd's Hey

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Christmas Fantasy.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9.

  • Matthew Curtis

    Christmas Rush

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Another Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 9.

  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Op.3

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Anonymous

    Miri it is while sumer ilast

    Singer: Vivien Ellis. Performer: Stevie Wishart. Performer: Jim Denley. Ensemble: Sinfonye. Director: Stevie Wishart.
    • Gabriel's Greeting: Medieval English Christmas Music: Sinfonye/Wishart.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas Dance

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol. 3: Shelley / 麻豆社 NOW / Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet for two horns and strings quartet, Op 81b (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Johann Ludwig Krebs

    Wie sch枚n leuchtet der Morgenstern, Krebs-WV 552

    Performer: Annette Unternahrer-Gfeller.
    • The First No毛l.
    • Genuin.
    • 1001.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41: Sir Colin Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 8.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    This is the record of John

    Composer: Nico Muhly. Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G minor Op.94 for cello and piano

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumblebee

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • The Library Vol. 3.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Trad.

    Still, still, still weils Kindlein schlafen will

    Music Arranger: Mack Wilberg. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Simple Gifts.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Arr. Metcalfe)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Oscar Holch. Performer: Rowena Calvert. Performer: Lysandre. Music Arranger: John Metcalfe. Singer: Sam Becker.
    • Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto perpetuo, Op.11

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • Carnaval: Wynton Marsalis.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Traditional Irish

    Sheep under the Snow - Apples in Winter - Little Christmas Reel

    Composer: Traditional Manx. Performer: Susanna Perry Gilmore. Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Christmas On Sugarloaf Mountain.
    • AVIE.
    • 3.

  • John Rutter

    Rejoice and Be Merry (Arr. for Brass Band by Luc Vertommen)

    Music Arranger: Luc Vertommen. Conductor: Nicholas Childs. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.
    • Brass at Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La boh猫me)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Now Found is the Fairest of Roses

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 16.

  • James Bassi

    Quem pastores laudavere

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 112.

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Concerto grosso in E major, Op 8 No 3

    Performer: Julia Schr枚der. Performer: Antonio Perez. Ensemble: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu no.3 in A flat major Op.34

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Faure - The Complete Music for Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Samuel Barber

    Die natali, Op. 37

    • Barber: Piano Concerto / Die Natali / Medea's Meditation.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto no.7 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Decca.

  • Gustaf Nordqvist

    Jul, Jul Stralande Jul

    Lyricist: Edvard Evers. Singer: Benjamin Appl. Choir: Regensburger Domspatzen. Conductor: Christian Hei脽.
    • The Christmas Album.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel

    Trumpet Concerto in D major

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

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