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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

  • Lukas Foss

    Composer's Holiday (3 American Pieces)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The American Album: Itzhak Perlman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.7 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 4.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Rondo in B flat major, WO8

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Clementi: Capriccios & Variations: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 29.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV.229

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Bach: The Motets.
    • BIS.
    • 1-2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Songs of the Clown: For the rain, it raineth every day

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: William Dazeley.
    • Korngold, E.W.: Songs (Sonnett Fur Wien).
    • Signum Classics.
    • 705.

  • Marianna Martines

    Overture in C major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Conductor: Nicholeta Paraschivescu.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Duo concertant: Gigue

    Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • György Ligeti

    6 Bagatelles (no.3)

    Ensemble: Galliard Ensemble.
    • Music For Wind Quintet.
    • DEUX ELLES.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B flat major, Op 23 No 2

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Simon Trpceski Plays Rachmaninov.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Geoffrey Bush

    Yorick

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from the British Isles, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Greeting Prelude

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Tutto nel mondo è burla (Falstaff)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Singer: Daniil Shtoda. Singer: Enrico Facini. Singer: Anthony Mee. Singer: Anatoly Kocherga. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: Dorothea Röschmann. Singer: Larissa Diadkova. Singer: Stella Doufexis. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in F major, Op 9 No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Frank de Bruine. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Filipe de Magalhães

    Commissa mea pavesco

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Magalhães: Missa Veni Domine & Missa Vere Dominus est.
    • Hyperion.
    • 43.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Concerto for cello and orchestra Hob.VIIb:1 in C major - I. Moderato

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra Müllejans.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER.

  • Reginald Goss-Custard

    Chelsea fayre

    Performer: Simon Lindley.
    • OXRECS.

  • Edward Elgar

    As Torrents in Summer (Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf)

    Choir: Cambridge University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • NAXOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Nacio Herb Brown

    Singin' in the Rain: Singin' in the Rain

    Lyricist: Arthur Freed. Singer: Gene Kelly. Orchestra: MGM Studio Orchestra.
    • RHINO MOVIE MUSIC.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No 4 in D minor: Sarabande

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven - Handel: Suite No. 4 in D Minor: III. Sarabande.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.1 in D major D.82 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Berlin Philharmoniker.

  • Robert Johnson

    Care charminge sleepe

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann. Singer: Ruby Hughes.
    • Amidst the Shades.
    • BIS.
    • 107.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Tchaikovsky / Khachaturian: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Music Arranger: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ray Russell.
    • Rhythm Song.
    • RCA.
    • 9.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 6 in A Minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 6; Kindertotenlieder.
    • DG.

  • Robert Schumann

    Abendlied, Op 85 No 12

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: James Baillieu. Music Arranger: Julian Bliss.
    • Clara & Robert Schumann: Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 114.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (Roméo et Juliette)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.
    • Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
    • Erato.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Trio Sonata, Op 16 No 3

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

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.

  • Richard Wagner

    Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Götterdämmerung)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Szell Conducts Wagner: Great Orchestral Highlights from the Ring of the Nibelung.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

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