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Refresh your morning with classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music for your morning, 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 a masterpiece.

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 29.

  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor. Music Arranger: Kanneh-Mason Trio. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • George Gershwin

    Cuban Overture

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Gershwin, G.: Dayful of Song / Cuban Overture / Promenade / Rhapsody in Blue / L.
    • Delos.
    • 201.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major BWV.1048 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.

  • Grace Williams

    Hiraeth

    Performer: Edward Witsenburg.
    • Harp Music from Six Centuries.
    • Globe.
    • 20.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Introduction, theme and variations

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lan Shui.
    • BIS.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (Vivace)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto in A Minor, H. 431: I. Allegro assai (Arr. Parkin)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major D.898 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Schubert Piano Trios.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Nubya Garcia

    Water's Path

    Performer: James Douglas. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Odyssey.
    • Concord Jazz.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH 29 (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 102.

  • Daniel Purcell

    Sonata sesta for violino solo

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2-5.

  • Amália Rodrigues

    Fado da Saudade

    • Tudo Esto É Fado.
    • Alma Latina.
    • 20.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Homesickness (part 2)

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
    • Buda musique.

  • Anthony Hopkins

    My Fatherland

    Lyricist: Evan James. Lyricist: John Jones. Lyricist: Richard Davies. Lyricist: William Williams.
    • Life is a Dream.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and Silver Waltz

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Here Come the Classics, Vol. 12: The Glory of Vienna.
    • RPO.
    • 11.

  • Giovanni Bottesini

    String Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 99 "Gran quintetto": I. Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: I Musicanti.
    • Bottesini: String Quintets.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 201.

  • Christian Forshaw & Grace Davidson

    Tale of the Leiden Riddle

    • Lindisfarne: Beyond the Causeway.
    • Christian Forshaw,Universal Music Operations Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in E flat major, Op 119, No 4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms: Handel Variations op.24 etc.: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120

    Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Chamber Orchestra of Europe plays Schumann.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 14.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Après un rêve (3 songs Op.7)

    Performer: Peter Moore. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Life Force.
    • Rubicon.
    • 101.

  • George Botsford

    Black and White Rag

    Performer: Winifred Atwell.
    • MUSIC TODAY RECORDS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Serenade (Harold en Italie, Op 16)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Hamadi Ferjani. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Berlioz Les nuits d’été; Harold en Italie.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum (Liber primus missarum)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Morales: Requiem.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos: Andsnes, Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Last Thursday 09:30
    BBC Radio 3