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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 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.

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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 29 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite Op.40 (Gavotte - Musette)

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Soloists.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: Serenade: Philharmonische Virtuosen Berlin.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op. 22 (Arr. for Oboe & Piano by Nicholas Daniel): No. 3, Leidenscha

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 106.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Blue Rose

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.
  • Santiago de Murcia

    Tarantella no 2

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.
    • Naive.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Cedille.
  • Clarence Cameron White

    Basque folk song

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
    • 004.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Hyperion.
  • Charles Ives

    Dreams

    Performer: Tan Crone. Singer: Roberta Alexander.
    • Etcetera.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Victor Ewald

    Brass Quintet no.2 Op.6 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Munich Brass.
    • Munich Brass.
    • Orfeo.
    • 203.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Overture mit Konzertschluss from Iphigenie en Aulide

    Music Arranger: Richard Wagner. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • Oehms.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet. Performer: Veronika Hagen.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Trad.

    The last rose of summer

    Music Arranger: John Stevenson. Singer: Ann Murray. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • The Last Rose of Summer: Ann Murray/Graham Johnson.
    • Helios.
    • 1.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances for piano (Transylvanian Stamping Dance)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Simon Jeffes

    Perpetuum mobile

    Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • Signs of Life.
    • E.G. Records.
    • 9.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - Final Scene

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Singer: Sophie Koch. Singer: Diana Damrau. Singer: Franz Grundheber. Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier.
    • Decca.
    • 013.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Symphonies.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Choir Concerto (4th mvt, 'Complete this work which I began')

    Choir: Danish Radio Choir. Conductor: Stefan Parkman.
    • Schnittke: Minnesang/Choir Cto.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Brian Eno

    Heroes

    Composer: David Bowie. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1101.
  • Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35, TH 59: I. All

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin.
    • Tchaikovsky, Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Danse des sylphes

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • William Denis Browne

    To Gratiana Dancing & Singing

    Music Arranger: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (Finale)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • J. Haydn: Symphonies nos. 103 & 104: Norrington.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Ego sum panis vivus qui

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Altwiener Liebeswalzer

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Michail Jurowski.
    • Leh谩r: Overtures & Waltzes.
    • CPO.
    • 201.

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