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Classical soundtrack for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise

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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 4 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Fruhlingslied (Spring Song) in A major, Op 62 No 6

    Performer: Lucy Parham.
    • I, Clara: Clara Schumann, A Life In Music.
    • Deux-Elles Limited.
    • 15.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical' (2nd mvt, Larghetto)

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Linn.
  • Anna Clyne

    Cello Concerto, 'Dance' (3rd mvt, 'in the middle of the fighting')

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 3.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez Conducts Wagner.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Agathe Backer-Grondahl

    Kivlemøyane (The Kivle Girls), Op 30 No 10

    Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth.
    • Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 2.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto in C major for 2 oboes and strings, Op 7 No 2

    Performer: Catherine Latham. Performer: Anthony Robson. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: The Collected Concertos for Oboes and Strings: Collegium Musicum 90 /.
    • Chandos.
    • 3-5.
  • Pierre de la Rue

    O salutaris hostia

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide.
    • BIS.
    • 801.
  • Florence Price

    Colonial Dance

    Orchestra: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Price: Songs of the Oak.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite, Op 11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Vieni, o figlio! (Ottone, re di Germania, Act 2)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Arias.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • Agathe Backer-Grondahl

    Kivlemøyane (The Kivle Girls), Op 30 No 10

    Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth.
    • Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (3rd mvt, Presto giocoso)

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • Impressions francaises.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 3.
  • Maria Dolores Knoop

    L'Alhambra

    Performer: Annette Kruisbrink.
    • Guitar Music by Women Composers.
    • Soundset.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence (2nd mvmt, Adagio cantabile e con moto)

    Ensemble: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade.
    • Sony Music Classical Local.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert de Nations, Jordi.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Agathe Backer-Grondahl

    Kivlemøyane (The Kivle Girls), Op 30 No 10

    Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth.
    • Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 2.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey: Quinney/O'Donnell.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt - suite no.1 Op.46)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Three little maids from school (The Mikado)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Lesley Garrett. Singer: Jean Rigby. Singer: Susan Bullock. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Robinson.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado: English National Opera.
    • That's Entertainment.
    • 8.
  • Gottfried von Einem

    Medusa - Ballet, Op 24 (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cornelius Meister.
    • Einem: Klavierkonzert.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.
  • LÅ«cija GarÅ«ta

    Prelude in E major

    Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • IBS Classical.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Op.3

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin concerto in A major, Op.7 no.1 - 2nd movement, Adagio (con expressione)

    Performer: Miroslav Vilímec. Orchestra: Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: František Preisler.
    • Saint-George: Complete violin concertos, Vol.3.
    • AVENIRA.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Variations on an Original Theme in G major, WoO.77

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating Rhythm (Lady be Good)

    Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Le tre grazie a Venrere

    Choir: TENET.
    • AVIE.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, 'From the New World' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Dvorák: Complete Symphonies & Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 43.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Mystical Songs

    Singer: Brian Rayner Cook. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Joplin: The Easy Winner & Other Rag-Time Music: Itzhak Perlman.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise - Suite for Orchestra (4th mvmt, Stillness)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 3 No 4 (arranged for trumpet and piano)

    Performer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. Performer: Anna Szalucka. Music Arranger: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. Music Arranger: Timothy Jones.
    • Handel for Trumpet.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2-6.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Strauss, J.II: Waltzes, Polkas & Marches.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Vogel (The Birds), D.691

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.
    • A Musical Zoo.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Dani Howard

    Coalescence

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Urbina.
    • Dani Howard: Orchestral Works.
    • Rubicon.
    • 106.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Apr 2024 09:30

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