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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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Music Played

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique No 4 (Scherzo)

    Performer: John Ogdon. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ei! Wie schmeckt der Coffee susse & Macdchen, die von harten Sinnen (Coffee Cantata BWV.211)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L’Oiseau Lyre.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legends, op.59 - No 2 in G major

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Märchenbilder, Op. 113: II. Lebhaft

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • Fantasy.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Erik Satie

    Le poisson rêveur

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in G major, S213 (5th mvt)

    Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 24.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Méditation, Op 72 No 5

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto: Joshua Bell.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • John Dunstable

    Ave maris stella

    Ensemble: The Binchois Consort. Director: Andrew Kirkman.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene. Conductor: Øyvind Gimse.
    • Trondheimsolistene - In Folk Style.
    • 2L.
    • 3.

  • Hilda Herrera

    La Diablera (Zamba)

    Singer: Luciana Mancini. Conductor: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • La Torre del Oro.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Rondo in E flat major K371 for horn and orchestra

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • ALPHA.

  • Léon Honnoré

    Morceau de concert, Op. 23

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Jonathan Ware.
    • Alto appassionato.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite orientale, Op. 48/2: II. Danse d'Almée

    Conductor: Joseph Bastian. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 105.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.
    • RCA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Sonata No. 1 in E Major, Op. 6, MWV U 54: II. Tempo di menuetto - Più viva

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Mendelssohn: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Claude Debussy

    Poissons d'or (Images, Set 2)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals (Aquarium)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Philips.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Pamela Frank. Performer: Rebecca Young. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata:Ax/Frank/Ma/Meyer/Bonney.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O Sacrum Convivium (for 5 voices)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    2 Fairy Tales, Op. 20: No. 1, Allegro con espressione

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Medtner & Rachmaninoff: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 401.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    4 Fairy Tales, Op. 26: No. 1, Allegretto frescamente

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Medtner & Rachmaninoff: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Lead, kindly light

    Composer: John Henry Newman. Performer: Katy Hill. Performer: Daniel Collins. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Lead, Kindly Light.
    • CORO.
    • 5.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Trio Sonata, Op 16 No 3

    Performer: Ewa Anna Augustynowicz. Performer: Katarzyna Solecka. Ensemble: Giardino di Delizie.
    • Leonarda: Complete Trio Sonatas.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 Eroica - 3rd mvt

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra.
    • National Symphony Orchestra.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 82

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • TELDEC.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 14: II. Scherzo. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Erato Quartett Basel.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mayer & Sirmen: String Quartets.
    • CPO.
    • 202.

  • George Gershwin

    S'Wonderful (Funny Face)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bliss. Music Arranger: Neal Thornton. Music Arranger: Lewis Wright. Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Dreamland

    Performer: William Vann. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • ALBION.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Odelette

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G major Wq.183`4 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • C.P.E. Bach: 4 Symphonies: The English Concert, Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.

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