Refresh your morning with classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Georgia Mann 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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Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No 1 (Prelude)
Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- Warner.
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Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in E major D.157 (1st mvt)
Performer: Arcadi Volodos.- SONY.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no.4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1–9.
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
- 15.
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Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Ombra mai fu (Xerse)
Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Musiche Nove. Director: Claudio Osele.- Simone Kermes - Colori D'Amore - Le Musiche Nove; Claudio Osele.
- Sony Classical.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
- ALPHA.
- 05.
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Olivier Messiaen
O Sacrum Convivium
Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Grigoras Dinicu
Hora staccato
Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Victor Koptchinsky.- Rapsodia: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
- Naive.
- 18.
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William Walton
Symphony No 1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)
Performer: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Nocturne
Performer: Evelyn Chang.- AVIE.
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Aaron Copland
Hoe-down (Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes)
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid: San Francisco SO, Tilson Thom.
- RCA Red Seal.
- 006.
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Jacques Offenbach
La Boulangère a des écus: "Ah ! Qu'elle est fière"
Singer: Véronique Gens. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Choir: Chœur de L’Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.- Les Divas d'Offenbach.
- Alpha Classics.
- 14.
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Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie in G major Op.3`5
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Archiv.
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Dana Suesse
Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.- Jazz Nocturne.
- Naxos.
- 009.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Quartet No. 4 In E Minor Op.44 For Strings
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4.
- Erato.
- 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Beethoven: The Symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 2.
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Henri Mulet
Tu es petra (Esquisses byzantines)
Performer: Peter Crompton.- Toccatas and Roses, Peter Crompton.
- Priory.
- 11.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus K.618
Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
- Coro.
- 1.
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Leonard Bernstein
Serenade after Plato's Symposium (1st mvt)
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- Bernstein: Serenade - Barber: Violin Concerto - Foss: Three American Pieces.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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William Walton
Belshazzar's Feast (conclusion)
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: BBC Singers. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- APEX.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
España
Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Musicales Actes Sud.
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Marin Marais
Les Voix humaines (Suite in D major, Book 2 No 3)
Performer: Thomas Dunford. Music Arranger: Thomas Dunford.- ERATO.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D Minor, RV 565, Op 3 No 11
Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Nabil Benabdeljalil
Nocturne No. 4
Performer: Rebeca Omordia.- SOMM.
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Léo Delibes
Coppelia: Act I No.2 'Waltz of Swannhilde'
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Henry Purcell
Welcome to all the pleasures - Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.339
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Frédéric Chopin
Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major Op.18
Performer: Ingrid Fliter.- Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Leó Weiner
Serenade for small orchestra, Op 3 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Solti - Bartók.
- DECCA.
- 21.
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Pamela Harrison
Sonatina for Violin and Piano (3rd mvt)
Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Benjamin Frith.- Pamela Harrison: Chamber Works.
- Resonus Classics.
- 7.
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Franz Schubert
Suleika II, D 717
Performer: Daniel Heide. Singer: Katharina Konradi.- LIEBENDE.
- AVi.
- 20.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 1 in C Minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Brahms: The Symphonies.
- DECCA.
- 4.
Broadcast
- Fri 7 Nov 202509:30BBC Radio 3
