Refresh your morning with classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- EMI.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in G major, Op 32 No 5
Performer: Dmitri Alexeev.- Rachmaninov: Preludes, Op. 23 & 32 - Moments musicaux, Op. 16 - Morceaux de fant.
- Warner Classics.
- 5.
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John Dowland
Fantasia in G major P.1
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Delphian.
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Max Reger
Romance in G major, Op 50 No 1
Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek.- HYPERION.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Let us take care (Hercules at the Crossroads, BWV213)
Choir: G盲chinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Orchestra: Bach鈥怌ollegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling.- HANNSLER.
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Maurice Ravel
Five o'clock Foxtrot
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.- LONDON.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.1 in D major (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Markus Stenz.- OEHMS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: III. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
- Mozart / Beethoven: Piano Quintets.
- BIS.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Concerto for violin & orchestra in G minor (2nd movement)
Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mike Hankinson.- Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto.
- AVIE.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Twelve Songs, Op. 14: No. 9, She Is As Beautiful As Midday
- Rachmaninoff: Songs.
- Delphian Records.
- 21.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)
Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
- Philips.
- 3.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.- Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny: Quatuor Ebene.
- Virgin Classics.
- 6.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Stabat Mater a 8
Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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Alexander Scriabin
2 Impromptus, Op. 12: No. 1 In F-Sharp Major
Performer: Katya Apekisheva.- Scriabin/Faure/Chopin: Impromptus.
- CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
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Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Op.26
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Sibelius: Symphonies No.1 & 3/Finlandia: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/O.
- Erato.
- 8.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.- Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
- Signum Classics.
- 103.
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John Lanchbery
The Mouse Waltz (Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- Lanchbery.
- Warner Classics.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Pavan [Z.750] (Fantasia and 2 Pavans, after Purcell)
Ensemble: Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.- Renaissance & Baroque Realisations.
- Unicorn-Kanchana.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
The Cunning Little Vixen (Act 1 Prelude: How Sharp-Ears was caught)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- CHANDOS.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (The Wasps)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
- Naxos.
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Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore 'Stowkoski version'
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Chandos.
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脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Trio Sonata no.4 in G minor
Ensemble: Musica Fiorita. Director: Daniela Dolci.- PAN CLASSICS.
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Frank Bridge
Nocturne (Suite for String Orchestra)
Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.- NIMBUS.
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George Frideric Handel
Dopo notte (Ariodante)
Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- ARCHIV.
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Max Bruch
String Octet in B flat, Op.posth
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Orlande de Lassus
Pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus
Conductor: Daniel Reuss. Choir: Cappella Amsterdam.- Lassus: Penitential Psalms.
- Pentatone.
- 107.
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Claude Debussy
En bateau (Petite suite)
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.- Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
- Warner Classics.
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Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto No. 6 in D Major, G. 479: 3rd mvt
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.- Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto in F major for Recorder, Strings and Continuo FaWV LF6 [complete]
Performer: Thomas Triesschijn. Ensemble: The Counterpoints.- Thomascantors in Dialogue.
- Challenge Classics.
- 14-16.
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Edward Elgar
Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 82: III. Allegro, non troppo
- 1919: Boulanger, Jan谩膷ek, Elgar & Debussy.
- Delphian Records.
- 13.
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