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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 10 Mar 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy: Night in Granada: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
    • Cala.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • 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.
  • Iain Maclachlan

    The Dark Island

    Composer: Ross Stewart. Music Arranger: Paul Smith. Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM Records.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 3 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Pentatone.
  • 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.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for harp & orchestra (Rondo)

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • José Ferrer

    Nocturne, Op 11 No 1

    Performer: Gerard Cousins.
    • Nocturne Op. 11 : No. 1 (Arr. for Guitar by Gerard Cousins).
    • Prima Classic.
    • 1.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Triumphal (Festive) symphony in E major, Op 6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petr Popelka.
    • Ma vlast.
    • Supraphon.
    • 10.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Clark.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske in B flat major, Op 20 No 2

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Myrios.
  • Charles Williams

    Dream of Olwen

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.
    • Naxos.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina - Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Ashkenazy - Live in Moscow.
    • ASV.
    • 001.
  • Erroll Garner

    Misty

    Performer: Erroll Garner.
    • Verve.
  • 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.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Intavolatura di chitarone.
    • BIS.
    • 108.
  • Nan Avant

    Nani Lahaina

    Performer: Davide Alogna. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Miran Vaupotic.
    • Symphonic Stradivarius: New Works for Violin & Orchestra.
    • Navona.
    • 7.
  • Jean Cras

    Cello sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.
    • Invisibles.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.
  • 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.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 1 in E minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    String quartet in E major, D 353 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Schubert: The String Quartets.
    • Mirare.
    • 12.
  • Craig Armstrong

    Romeo and Juliet (Balcony Scene)

    Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Pure... Movies.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 16.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Salve regina for 5 voices

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.
    • Decca.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • 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.
    • 3.
  • 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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