Great classical music for your morning
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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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George Frideric Handel
Ombra mai fu (Serse)
Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.- ERATO.
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Maurice Ravel
DZé
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Ravel: Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
- 19.
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Cécile Chaminade
L' Ondine [The Water sprite] Op.101
Performer: Peter Jacobs.- Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
- Helios.
- 6.
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Michael Haydn
Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in C - Cadenza: Hardenberger: 2. Allegro molto
Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.- Haydn: Wind Concertos.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 11.
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Eric Whitacre
Cloudburst
Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Stephen Betteridge. Performer: Robert Millett. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 43 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.- ALPHA.
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Amy Beach
Invocation Op.55
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.- Schumann, Smyth, Beach.
- Chandos.
- 13.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Mandolin Concerto in C major RV.425
Performer: Paul O’Dette. Performer: Roy Goodman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.- Vivaldi: Music for Lute and Mandolin; Paul O'Dette, The Parley of Instruments.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Harold Arlen
It's Only A Paper Moon
Performer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: André Previn. Performer: David Finck. Lyricist: Billy Rose. Lyricist: Yip Harburg.- Philips.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.3 in E flat major Op.55 'Eroica' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.- Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
- BIS.
- 4.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Piano Quintet in G minor Op.1 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- CHANDOS.
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Robert Carver
Missa L'Homme armé (Gloria)
Choir: Cappella Nova. Director: Alan Tavener.- Robert Carver Vol. 2: Cappella Nova.
- ASV.
- 5.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K.467 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.- Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol.1: Uchida/English Chamber Orchestra/Tate.
- Philips.
- 5.
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Anon.
Danza del hacha
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
- Alia Vox.
- 2.
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Benjamin Britten
Storm (Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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Claude Debussy
Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Granville Bantock
A Hebridean Symphony: II. [Untitled]
Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Bantock: A Celtic Symphony; A Hebridean Symphony; The Witch of Atlas.
- Hyperion.
- 16.
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Gene Kelly
Singing In The Rain
- The Valentines Collection.
- TV Music.
- 26.
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Charles Avison
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 9 No 10
Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
- Divine Art.
- 1.
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Gioachino Rossini
Domine Deus (Petite Messe Solenelle)
Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.- Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle: Pappano/Orchestre e Coro dell'Accademia Nazion.
- EMI Classics.
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Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, Op 23 No 4: Forlana
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- The Lyrical Clarinet.
- Chandos.
- 7.
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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Symphony No 3, Op 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)
Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.- Gorecki: Symphony No. 3: Dawn Upshaw.
- Elektra Nonesuch.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.- Hyperion.
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
4 Shakespeare Songs for chorus; 3. Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.- Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets.
- Naxos Sweden.
- 17.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)
Performer: Xuefei Yang. Orchestra: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia. Conductor: Eije Oue.- Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: No. 5, Ad pectus
Orchestra: Gothenburg Baroque. Conductor: Magnus Kjellson.- Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75.
- Proprius.
- 105.
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Edvard Grieg
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite no.1)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
- EMI.
- 4.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in A major, K 24
Performer: Sophie Yates.- La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
- Chandos.
- 15.
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Henri Mulet
Carillon-Sortie
Performer: Francis Jackson.- Great Cathedral Organs of England.
- Regis Records.
- 14.
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