
Refresh your morning with classical music
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 familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
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.
1100 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.
1230 Album of the Week
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Darius Milhaud
Brazileira (Scaramouche)
Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Ozsuca-Rattle. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.- Decca Classics.
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Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite, Op 40 (Air)
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Hanssler.
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Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
Overture-Suite in D Major (Ciaccona)
Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.- Forza azzurri! Music by Dall’abaco, Brescianello, Sammartini, Vivaldi and Zavate.
- Signum Classics.
- 24.
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Clara Schumann
Larghetto in F major (No 1 of 4 Pièces fugitives, Op 15)
Performer: Jozef de Beenhouwer.- Complete Works for Piano.
- Partridge.
- 010.
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Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor (Polovtsian Dance no.17)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.- Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
- Philips.
- 4.
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Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)
Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.- Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
- Cedille.
- 102.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)
Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Ensemble: Sarband. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.- Archiv.
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Thomas Adès
O Albion (Arcadiana)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- ECM New Series.
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Anonymous
Estampie real No 8
Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.- Music of the Crusades.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 11.
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Cécile Chaminade
Callirhoé (Prelude)
Orchestra: Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est. Conductor: David Reiland.- Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
- Bru Zane.
- 1.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt, Presto)
Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.- BIS.
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Madeleine Dring
Take, o take those lips away
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Roderick Williams.- Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook.
- BIS.
- 123.
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Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)
Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.- Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
- Cedille.
- 102.
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Bedrich Smetana
The Bartered Bride (Dance of the Comedians)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.- Little Pearls of Czech Classics: Czech Philharmonic Orch/Neumann.
- Supraphon.
- 7.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 48 in C major, 'Maria Theresia' (2nd mvt, Adagio)
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Haydn 2032 project Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
- Alpha.
- 10.
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Scott Joplin
Solace [A Mexican Serenade]
Performer: William Bolcom.- Euphonic Sounds - The Scott Joplin Album.
- OMEGA.
- 12.
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Frederick Delius
La Calinda
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Fenby.- HERITAGE.
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Richard Rodgers
Bali Ha'i (South Pacific)
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.- Bryn Terfel - Something Wonderful.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 5.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Symphony No 1, 'A Night in the Tropics' (2nd mvt)
Conductor: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra.- Gottschalk: Escenas Campestres Cubanas / Gran Overture / Symphonie Romantique No.
- Naxos.
- 11.
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Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No 1
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Chopin, Liszt, Ravel: Benjamin Grosvenor.
- Decca.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre Op.40
Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- Le Boeuf sur le toit.
- Warner Classics.
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Matthew Coleridge
Introit (Requiem)
Performer: Maxim Calver. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Orchestra: Southern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rupert Gough.- Convivium.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
King Stephen, Op 117 (Overture)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Helvi Leiviskä
Piano Trio (2nd mvmt)
Performer: Annemarie Astrom. Performer: Ulla Lampela. Performer: Tiina Karakorpi.- ALBA.
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George Frideric Handel
Water Music - Suite in D major, HWV.349 (Alla hornpipe)
Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Aaron Copland
The Tender Land - Suite
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.- SONY.
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Quartet concertant in C major Op.15 no.3
Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.- Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
- Naxos.
- 301.
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Joy Webb
Share My Yoke
Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Sebastian Haukas. Ensemble: tenThing.- She Composes Like A Man.
- Lawo Classics.
- 14.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Hopak (Mazeppa)
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.- Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Masur.
- Teldec.
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Dora Pejačević
Veilchen (Violet), Op 19 No 2
Performer: Nataša Veljković.- Pejačević: Complete Piano Works.
- CPO.
- 102.
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Antonio Caldara
Let us take up our swords against the traitor (Assalonne)
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Ensemble Artaserse.- La vanita del mondo.
- Erato.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the dance
Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.- CHANDOS.
Broadcast
- Tue 23 Apr 2024 09:30ѿý Radio 3