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Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

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Robert Schumann
Arabeske in C major Op.18
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
- Hyperion.
Claude Debussy
La Mer (De l'aube à midi sur la mer)
Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
- Musicales Actes Sud.
Trad.
Nu rinder solen opp [Behold, the dawning sun]
Music Arranger: Linn Andrea Fuglseth. Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
- 2L.
Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major, I. 84: IV. Presto
Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate.
- Where is Home / Hae ke Kae.
- Warner Classics.
- 4.
Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
- Viva Verdi.
- Decca.
- 3.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Aria
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
- J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)
Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
- Warner.
Amy Beach
Valse Caprice Op 4
Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
- Guild.
Kate Stables
Creeping Up Our Shins
Ensemble: This Is the Kit.
- David Vernon.
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 6, No. 1
Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: Béla Fleck.
- Perpetual Motion.
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
Cristóbal de Morales
Parce mihi Domine
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
William Grant Still
Incantation and dance for oboe and piano
Performer: Joseph Robinson. Performer: Pedja Mužijević.
- Cala.
Georges Bizet
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Carmen)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Amiliato.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata in D major WoO.4 for trumpet, 2 violins and continuo
Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Ensemble: I Musici.
- Decca.
Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto in D major, H VIIb 2 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
- Haydn, Beethoven: Muller-Schott.
- Orfeo.
- 7.
Meredith Monk
Facing North: Northern Lights 1
Performer: Meredith Monk. Performer: Robert Een.
- ECM.
Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
Te deum H.146; Nos. 1-4
Ensemble: The Harmonic Chapel. Director: Valentin Tournet.
- Château de Versailles Spectacles.
Ruth Gipps
Seascape Op.53
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
Caroline Shaw
Inhale
Orchestra: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
- Naxos.
Ola Gjeilo
Northern Lights
Choir: VOCES8.
- Decca.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in C major K.545 (1st mvt)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
- Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
- Philips.
- 1.
Hugo Alfvén
Swedish Festive Music, Op 25
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
- Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
- FINLANDIA.
- 001.
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
- Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
- Supraphon.
- 5.
Benjamin Britten
Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Nos 3-5)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
- Britten: Young Person's Guide etc. Britten/Bonynge.
- London.

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