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Classical soundtrack 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

To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask 成人快手 Sounds to play Essential Classics鈥

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 Jan 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater.
    • LPO.
    • 2.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite no.6 in B flat

    Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (Fragment)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Danse villageoise (Suite Pastorale)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 3.
  • Trad.

    Five sheep, four goats

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Performer: Mads la Cour. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • dacapo.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche Suite)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • Darius Milhaud - Music for Two Pianos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise, Op 83

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 鈥 Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No. 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Boreades (Contredanse tr猫s vive)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Les Deux Roses (12 Melodies sur des poesies Russes)

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.
    • Ch猫re Nuit.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • George de la H猫le

    Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Agnus Dei II

    Choir: El Le贸n de Oro. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • La H猫le: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & Works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Franz von Supp茅

    Light Cavalry (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Suppe: Overtures and marches: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Notturno (Lyric Pieces, Op.54)

    Performer: Eva Knardahl.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Books 5-7: Knardahl.
    • BIS.
  • Christopher Simpson

    The Monthes: January

    Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.
    • Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo Op.65 No.10

    Performer: Gillian Weir.
    • Koss Classics.
  • Richard Strauss

    Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, TrV 233.
    • Orfeo.
    • 2.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Theme and Variations in A minor, Op 1 No 24

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • Paganini, 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 24.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schafe k枚nnen sicher weiden (Cantata No 208)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Bach: Cantatas Nos. 82, 202 "Wedding" & 208 "Hunt".
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.
  • Percy Grainger

    Sheep and Goat (Walkin' to the Pasture)

    Music Arranger: John Philip Sousa. Ensemble: Royal College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.
    • Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 19.
    • Naxos.
    • 701.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Acis & Galatea: "The Flocks shall leave the mountain"

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Singer: Alan Ewing. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Le boeuf sur le toit

    Performer: Jack Gibbons. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Carnaval D'Aix - Carnaval De Londres etc New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 45.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in Jazz Style Op.53 (no.19)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's March)

    Performer: Peter Hurford. Music Arranger: Peter Hurford. Ensemble: Michael Laird Brass Ensemble.
    • Trumpet Voluntary.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Remember not, Lord, our offences

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.
    • RICERCAR.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel In The Strand

    Performer: Martin Jones.
    • Percy Grainger - Piano Favourites.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in B Minor Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Se pieta di me non senti (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Chengqian Xue

    Caprice

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Holst

    Beni Mora Op.29`1 (In the street of the Ouled Nails)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Manuel Ponce

    Scherzino mexicano

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto No 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Jan 2025 09:30

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