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Great classical music for your morning

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 discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite Op 29`2 (Finale; The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Rees.
    • Wilson: St Kentigern Suite: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Rees.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 23.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No.8 in G major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Dvo艡谩k: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
    • DG.
    • 8.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ward Stare. Conductor: Ward Stare.
    • American Rapture.
    • Azica.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in F major, HWV 427

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Thomas Tallis

    God grant we grace [Tallis's canon] (9 Psalm Tunes)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pat Metheny

    Four Paths of Light (part 4)

    Performer: Jason Vieaux.
    • Road to the Sun.
    • Modern Recordings/BMG.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring (Nos.7 & 8)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Roadtrip.
    • Warner.
    • 14-15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden (Cantata No 182)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades, Op 10: No 4

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • Brahms: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Armide - Overture

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Serafino Razzi

    O Vergin Santa

    Singer: D茅borah Cachet. Singer: Eva Za茂cik. Ensemble: Le Po猫me Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.
    • ALPHA.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Sicilienne Op.78

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Mariko Anraku.
    • Beau Soir, French and Japanese melodies: Pahud/Anraku.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • George Walker

    Trombone Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • BIS.

  • Grigoras Dinicu

    Hora staccato

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Victor Koptchinsky.
    • Rapsodia: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
    • Naive.
    • 18.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Symphony in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Scriabin: Pr茅lude in C Minor, Op. 11, No. 20

    • SCRIABIN 鈥� SCARLATTI.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major RV 537 for 2 trumpets (1st mvt)

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Performer: Reinhold Friedrich. Orchestra: I Musici.
    • Philips.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Les illuminations: IIIa. Phrase

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Unknown Britten.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • Richard Strauss

    Alpine Symphony (On the Summit; Vision; Mists Rise)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Charles Gounod

    Mors et Vita: Judex

    Orchestra: Richard Hickox Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Decca.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Tchaikovsky / Khachaturian: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • John Sheppard

    In manus tuas Domine I for 3 voices [Lbm Add.17802-5]

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning and Consolation.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 501.

  • William Walton

    Partita (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major, Op.18

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Schumann: Fantasie/Kreisleriana/Arabeske: Jonathan Biss.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Beethoven / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Mi chiamano Mimi (La boh猫me)

    Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Mirella Freni: Arias by Puccini/Verdi/Rossini.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    Newcastle (From Playford's "The English Dancing Master")

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Terra Mater.
    • ERATO.
    • 16.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major D.959 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Schubert: Late Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 2 (Allegretto grazioso)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Edvard Grieg : Symphony, Symphonic Dances.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 6.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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