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Great classical music for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op.40 (Praeludium)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Grieg: Complete music with orchestra: Gothenburg SO/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

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

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Cantata BWV.170)

    Music Arranger: Wolfgang Renz. Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: CHAARTS.
    • Beyond Words: Music By JS Bach; Vivaldi; Handel; Gluck.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Königskinder - Concert Overture

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    O cessate di piagarmi (Il Pompeo)

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • HUSH.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • György Ligeti

    L'escalier du diable (Studies - book 2)

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.
    • The Leeds International Piano Competition 2021 – Gold Medal Winner.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.32 in G major K.318 [Overture]

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Symphonies: SCO, Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for recorder and 2 violins, RV.108

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Anna Paradiso. Performer: Jan Bjoranger. Performer: Benedicte Kyllingstad.
    • Bis.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne - set 1)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio for violin, cello and piano

    Ensemble: Trio Karénine.
    • Fauré, Ravel & Tailleferre.
    • Mirare.
    • 8-11.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Valse de la cigarette (Namouna)

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Improvisation

    Danza de Moctezuma

    Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 17.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Toccata in D minor Op.11

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko.
    • Hyperion.
  • Nina Simone

    Sinnerman

    Singer: Nina Simone.
    • Pastel Blues.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Satan's Dance of Triumph (Job)

    Performer: David Adams. Performer: Darius Battiwalla. Orchestra: Ჹé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Ჹé.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Scherzo diabolico in G minor Op.39 No.3

    Performer: Bernard Ringeissen.
    • Alkan: 12 Etudes, Op. 35 / Le Festin D'Esope / Scherzo Diabolico.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 2.
  • George Gershwin

    Stairway to Paradise (George White's Scandals of 1922)

    Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Elegy in C Minor Op.24

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 104.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire - overture Op.21

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Symphony no.5 Op.87 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto no.3 in A major Wq.172 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Herman Bellstedt

    Napoli

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding-cake Op.76

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

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  • Wed 24 Jan 2024 09:00

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