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A classical soundtrack for your morning

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.

1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email [email protected].

1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.

1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.

1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.

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Mon 13 Oct 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude)

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sergiu Celibidache.
    • Münchner Philharmoniker.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 5, No. 2; III. Rondeau

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K 459 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart; English Chamber Orchestra/Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Symphony No 3, Op 36, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvmt)

    Singer: Zofia Kilanowicz. Orchestra: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Naxos.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    ...As Others See Us... (Thomas Stearns Eliot)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.
    • RCA.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Song for orchestra, Op 33

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Carlos Salzedo

    Song in the Night (Chanson dans la nuit)

    Performer: Susann McDonald.
    • DELOS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, Op.49 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Jonathan Gilad. Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott.
    • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - The Piano Trios.
    • PentaTone classics.
    • 001.

  • Florence Price

    Suite No.1 for Organ: IV. Toccato. Allegro

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • NAXOS.

  • John Ireland

    Sarnia: An Island Sequence for Orchestra: III. Song of the Springtides

    Orchestra: Royal National Scottish Orchestra.
    • Ernest John Moeran: Sketches for Symphony No.2 - John Ireland: Sarnia - An Islan.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 7.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in D minor, Op.5`7

    Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41 "Jupiter": The English Concert, Trevor Pinnoc.
    • Archiv.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (4th & 5th mvts)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 008.

  • Robert Schumann

    Carnaval, Op.9: Chiarina, Chopin, Estrella

    Performer: Claudio Arrau.

  • Edward Elgar

    'Enigma' Variations, No 14: E.D.U. (finale)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Elgar - In the South, Serenade, Enigma Variations.
    • Onyx.
    • 19.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Pavane: Ravel, Satie & Faure: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Meditation (Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op.42)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DECCA.

  • Peter Gregson

    1. Prelude

    Performer: Peter Gregson. Performer: Reinoud Ford. Performer: Ben Chappell. Performer: Katherine Jenkinson. Performer: Richard Harwood.
    • Recomposed by Peter Gregson - Bach: the Cello Suites.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione for oboe, cello and strings

    Performer: Julia Girdwood. Performer: Robert Truman. Ensemble: Consort of London. Conductor: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2009.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1-3.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Ecce beatam lucem

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • 40 Voices.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Symphony in B minor, Op 4: 2nd mvmt (Allegretto scherzando - Presto)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Gestille Sehnsucht, Op.91 no.1

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269, 'Spring'

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 13 Oct 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3