
Classical soundtrack for your morning
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 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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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.- ERATO.
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Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony (Playful Pizzicato)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- Decca.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Air pour les guerriers; Air pour les amants; Orage (Les Indes galantes)
Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Performer: Jordi Savall. Director: Jordi Savall.- Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
- Alia Vox.
- 25.
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Nino Rota
Harp Concerto - I. Allegro moderato
Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.- Warner Classics.
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Cécile Chaminade
Arabesque in G minor Op.61 for piano
Performer: Mark Viner.- Piano Classics.
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Heino Eller
Videvik (Twilight) - Tone Poem
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Music from Estonia vol.2.
- Chandos.
- 006.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D major: 'Scherzo' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Joe Hisaishi
Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.- Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Volume 2, Nos. 1, 4 & 6.
- Resonus Classics.
- 8.
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Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer
An den Schlaf
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.- Trennung: Songs of Separation.
- BIS.
- 301.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville (Overture)
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Rossini: Overtures: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
- Philips.
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Heino Eller
Videvik (Twilight) - Tone poem
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Music from Estonia vol.2.
- Chandos.
- 006.
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Galina Grigorjeva
In Paradisum
Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- Ondine.
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Henryk Wieniawski
Légende Op.17
Performer: María Dueñas. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.- Beethoven and Beyond.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 7.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV.847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- DG.
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Alexander Glazunov
Symphony no.3 in D major Op.33 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka in C major, Op 24 No 2
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Mazurkas.
- Hyperion.
- 18.
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Videvik (Twilight) - Tone Poem
Conductor: Neeme Järvi. -
Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, Act III: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch
Orchestra: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.- Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D.
- Naxos.
- 409.
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Frederick Delius
Twilight Fancies
Performer: Ian Bostridge. -
Thelonious Monk
Crepuscule with Nellie
Performer: Thelonious Monk Quartet. -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Quintet no.1 in A minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble of London.- Louise Farrenc: The Two Piano Quintets.
- ASV.
- 03.
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Maurice Ravel
Menuet antique
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.- Ravel - orchestral works.
- Chandos.
- 9.
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Jean Richaford
'Sanctus' from Missa O Genitrix gloriosa
Choir: Cappella Mariana. Performer: Vojtěch Semerád.- MUSIQUE EN WALLONIE.
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Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: Café 1930
Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Reentko Dirks.- ALPHA.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird Suite
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Channel.
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Robert Schumann
Liederkreis Op.24 (Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen)
Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes & bassoon in D, TWV54.D3: Vivace
Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.- The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
- Signum Classics.
- 4.
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Fela Sowande
2 Preludes on Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies: No. 1, “K’A Mura”
Performer: Rebeca Omordia. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Papagena! Papagena! (from The Magic Flute)
Performer: Walter Berry. Performer: Olivera Miljakovic. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.- Mozart: The Magic Flute.
- Warner Classics.
- 225.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata for Solo Instrument and Continuo KK90 arr. for Mandolin
Performer: Anna Schivazappa. Performer: Ronald Martin Alonso. Performer: Daniel de Morais. Performer: Fabio Antonio Falcone. Ensemble: Pizzicar Galante.- ARCANA.
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony no.6 in D major, Op.60 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- Decca.
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- Tue 12 Nov 2024 09:3091ȱ Radio 3