
Refresh your morning with classical music
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.
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.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Claude Debussy
En bateau (Petite suite)
Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.- Debussy: Night in Granada: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
- Cala.
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Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'
Performer: Nelson Freire.- Decca.
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Tarquinio Merula
Ciaccona
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- ALIA VOX.
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Daniel François Esprit Auber
The Bronze Horse - overture (arr. Humperdinck)
Music Arranger: Engelbert Humperdinck. Orchestra: Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava. Conductor: Dario Salvi.- Auber: Overtures, Vol. 7.
- Naxos Music UK Ltd.
- 11.
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Iain Maclachlan
The Dark Island
Composer: Ross Stewart. Music Arranger: Paul Smith. Ensemble: Apollo5.- O Radiant Dawn.
- VCM Records.
- 9.
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Carl Nielsen
Aladdin's Dream & Dance of the Morning Mists (Aladdin Suite)
Orchestra: South Jutland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Niklas Willén.- Nielsen: Aladdin Suite; Pan and Syrinx.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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Luigi Boccherini
Minuetto from String Quintet in E major, Op 11 No 5
Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Cho-Liang Lin. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Sharon Robinson.- Schubert & Boccherini: String Quintets ((Remastered)).
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 3 in D minor (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Pentatone.
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J.J. Johnson
Lament (arr. for violin & piano)
Performer: Kristin Lee. Performer: Jeremy Ajani Jordan. Music Arranger: Jeremy Ajani Jordan.- American Sketches.
- First Hand.
- 6.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Concertino for harp & orchestra (Rondo)
Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.- Handel - Tailleferre.
- Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
- 6.
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Isabelle Aboulker
Je t'aime
Performer: Adam Ambarzumjan. Performer: Victoria Wong. Performer: Till Schuler. Performer: Doriana Tchakarova. Music Arranger: Franck Villard. Singer: Eva Zalenga.- varia . bel.
- Genuin.
- 15.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto no. 1 in C Op.15 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
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José Ferrer
Nocturne, Op 11 No 1
Performer: Gerard Cousins.- Nocturne Op. 11 : No. 1 (Arr. for Guitar by Gerard Cousins).
- Prima Classic.
- 1.
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Bedrich Smetana
Triumphal (Festive) symphony in E major, Op 6 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petr Popelka.- Ma vlast.
- Supraphon.
- 10.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Clark.- COLLINS CLASSICS.
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Robert Schumann
Humoreske in B flat major, Op 20 No 2
Performer: Kirill Gerstein.- Myrios.
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Charles Williams
Dream of Olwen
Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.- Naxos.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina - Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Ashkenazy - Live in Moscow.
- ASV.
- 001.
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Erroll Garner
Misty
Performer: Erroll Garner.- Verve.
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Hector Berlioz
Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24: LSO & Chorus/Davis.
- LSO Live.
- 3.
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Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
Canario
Performer: Jonas Nordberg.- Intavolatura di chitarone.
- BIS.
- 108.
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Nan Avant
Nani Lahaina
Performer: Davide Alogna. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Miran Vaupotic.- Symphonic Stradivarius: New Works for Violin & Orchestra.
- Navona.
- 7.
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Jean Cras
Cello sonata (2nd mvt)
Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.- Invisibles.
- Alpha Classics.
- 2.
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Joseph Haydn
The Creation: 'Die himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes'
Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Rudolf Rosen. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PHI.
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Florence Price
Symphony No 1 in E minor (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Franz Schubert
String quartet in E major, D 353 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.- Schubert: The String Quartets.
- Mirare.
- 12.
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Craig Armstrong
Romeo and Juliet (Balcony Scene)
Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.- Pure... Movies.
- Sony Music Entertainment.
- 16.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Salve regina for 5 voices
Choir: Stile Antico.- The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.
- Decca.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Habanera
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Ernest Bloch
Pastorale and rustic dances (Concerto Grosso no.1)
Performer: Barton Weber. Orchestra: Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Agnieszka Duczmal.- Ernest Bloch - Concerti grossi 1 & 2.
- CPO.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin concerto No 5 in A major, K 219 (3rd mvt)
Performer: David Castro-Balbi. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.- Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, KV 219, Piano Concertos Nos. 3, KV 40 & 14, KV 44.
- Alpha Classics.
- 9.
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- Mon 10 Mar 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3