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The ideal morning mix of classical music

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 5 Jun 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
    • Finlandia.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Gloria (Magnificat in C major)

    Choir: The King’s Singers. Ensemble: Charivari Agréable. Director: Kah-Ming Ng.
    • Pachelbel Vespers; The King's Singers / Charivari Agreable.
    • Signum.
    • 12.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Caprice in B flat minor, Op 33 No 3

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Mendelssohn - Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Naive.
    • 13.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    En Bateau (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
  • Franz Schreker

    Scherzo

    Orchestra: Auvergne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Forés Veses.
    • Berg, Webern, Schreker.
    • ´¡±è²¹°ù³Ùé.
    • 108.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony no. 4 for wind instruments in B flat major T.285/3`4

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies: Consortium Classicum.
    • MDG.
    • 11-13.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 - Come Away, Come Away, Death

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • Shakespeare In Music & Words.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 10.
  • Joachim Raff

    Macbeth - Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum mobile Op.257

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (Since she whom I loved)

    Music Arranger: Matthew Barley. Performer: Matthew Barley.
    • Around Britten.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 019.
  • Witold LutosÅ‚awski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Rachmaninov:Suite No.2 /Ravel a Valse/Lutoslawski:/Paganini Variations - Argeric.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Symphony no.1 in A major 'Symphonie Italienne' (Florence)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • d'Indy: Poème des Rivages & Symphony No. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Only In Sleep

    Performer: Rachel Ambrose Evans. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights and other Choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • Richard Strauss

    Traumerei am Kamin (Dreaming by the Fireside)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Sony.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Apres un reve

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite (Group 1)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • Claves.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

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

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Vasks: Laudate Dominum.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major RV.204 (La stravaganza)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Antonio Vivaldi: La Stravaganza.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7-9.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris (orchestral version)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • Angel.
    • 3.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Music for Wind Ensembles.
    • Chandos.
  • Anon.

    La Rotta

    Music Arranger: The Dufay Collective. Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • AVIE.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Études, Op. 10 - No. 12 in C Minor "Revolutionary"

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Gavin Bryars

    Ave Regina Gloriosa [Lauda VII]

    Choir: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.
  • Franz Danzi

    Fantasia on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano'

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Decca.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6 MB.48.35

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 01.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.

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  • Wed 5 Jun 2024 09:30

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