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Refresh your morning with classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

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 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 23 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Ozsuca-Rattle. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op 40 (Air)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Hanssler.
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Overture-Suite in D Major (Ciaccona)

    Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • Forza azzurri! Music by Dall鈥檃baco, Brescianello, Sammartini, Vivaldi and Zavate.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 24.
  • Clara Schumann

    Larghetto in F major (No 1 of 4 Pi猫ces fugitives, Op 15)

    Performer: Jozef de Beenhouwer.
    • Complete Works for Piano.
    • Partridge.
    • 010.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor (Polovtsian Dance no.17)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 102.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Ensemble: Sarband. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    O Albion (Arcadiana)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Anonymous

    Estampie real No 8

    Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
    • Music of the Crusades.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Callirho茅 (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt, Presto)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Take, o take those lips away

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook.
    • BIS.
    • 123.
  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 102.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Dance of the Comedians)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Little Pearls of Czech Classics: Czech Philharmonic Orch/Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 48 in C major, 'Maria Theresia' (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032 project Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha.
    • 10.
  • Scott Joplin

    Solace [A Mexican Serenade]

    Performer: William Bolcom.
    • Euphonic Sounds - The Scott Joplin Album.
    • OMEGA.
    • 12.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Fenby.
    • HERITAGE.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Bali Ha'i (South Pacific)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel - Something Wonderful.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Symphony No 1, 'A Night in the Tropics' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gottschalk: Escenas Campestres Cubanas / Gran Overture / Symphonie Romantique No.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No 1

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Chopin, Liszt, Ravel: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse macabre Op.40

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Le Boeuf sur le toit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Matthew Coleridge

    Introit (Requiem)

    Performer: Maxim Calver. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Orchestra: Southern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Convivium.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    King Stephen, Op 117 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Helvi Leivisk盲

    Piano Trio (2nd mvmt)

    Performer: Annemarie Astrom. Performer: Ulla Lampela. Performer: Tiina Karakorpi.
    • ALBA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music - Suite in D major, HWV.349 (Alla hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Aaron Copland

    The Tender Land - Suite

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • SONY.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet concertant in C major Op.15 no.3

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.
  • Joy Webb

    Share My Yoke

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Sebastian Haukas. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Hopak (Mazeppa)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Masur.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Veilchen (Violet), Op 19 No 2

    Performer: Nata拧a Veljkovi膰.
    • Peja膷evi膰: Complete Piano Works.
    • CPO.
    • 102.
  • Antonio Caldara

    Let us take up our swords against the traitor (Assalonne)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • La vanita del mondo.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

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