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Music for Dark Mornings

A playlist of listeners’ suggestions for music to indulge or brighten dark mornings.

BBC Playlister Breakfast Music Box

Breakfast brings you a Music Box of pieces recommended by listeners to guide and inspire you throughout the year.

You can listen to the whole collection of works in BBC Playlister.

ComposerTitle
John DowlandIn darkness let me dwell
Cyril ScottLotus Land
Maurice RavelDaphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 'Lever du Jour'
Alexandre TharaudSonata (Kk.132) in C major
Joseph HaydnThe Creation: In the Beginning & Now Vanish Before the Holy Beams
Joseph CanteloubeChants d'Auvergne - set 2: Pastourelle (Shepherd's Lass)
James MacMillanO Radiant Dawn
Carl NielsenHelios Overture
Sir Philip LedgerFoggy Foggy Dew
Joseph HaydnString Quartet in B flat major Op.76 No.4
George Frideric HandelL'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato: As Steals the Morn
Ferde GroféGrand Canyon Suite: Sunrise
George Frideric HandelTheodora - oratorio in 3 acts, Act 1, Sc.4: As with rosy steps the morn
Robert FarnonJumping Bean
Sir Arthur SullivanIolanthe Act 2, No.7: Love unrequited...When you're lying awake
Benjamin BrittenSimple Symphony: Playful Pizzicato
Vincent d'IndyMiramar de Mallorca Mediterranee: Le Joie du bleu profond
Leroy AndersonClarinet Candy
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSymphony No.41 in C 'Jupiter'
Flanders and SwannA Song of the Weather
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-WélySortie in E flat major for organ
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFlute Concerto in G: I. Allegro Maestoso

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