Great classical music for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1200 鈥�25 for 25: Sounds of the Century鈥� 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.
1230 Album of the Week.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask 麻豆社 Sounds to play Essential Classics鈥�
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Gioachino Rossini
William Tell (Overture)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
- Decca.
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Isa铆as S谩vio
Batacuda
Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.- Latino: Milos Karadaglic.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 10.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 Cori and Double Orchestra in F major, RV 584
Performer: Mauro Lopes Ferreira. Performer: Francesca Vicari. Performer: Francesco Moi. Performer: Ignazio Schifani. Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- NAIVE.
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Hubert Parry
I was glad
Choir: 麻豆社 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn. -
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William Alwyn
Bicycle Ride
Performer: Mark Bebbington.- SOMM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.- Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets.
- Cedille.
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Joan Trimble
Suite for Strings
Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.- Black Box.
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Jacques Ibert
Matin sur l'eau (6 Pieces)
Performer: Kyunghee Kim-Sutre.- La Harpe Consolatrice.
- Hortus.
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Reynaldo Hahn
Venezia: 1. Sopra l'acqua indormenzada
Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.- Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
- Helios.
- 13.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.5 in C minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
- Sony Classical.
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Ivo Antognini
Hope is the thing with feathers
Lyricist: Emily Dickinson. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No 1 (1st mvt)
Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 100 in G major, 'Military' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
- Naive.
- 5.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
24 Preludes (Op. 28); No. 4 in E Minor
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Alice Sara Ott plays Chopin.
- UME - Global Clearing House.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39
Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.- 贬补濒濒茅.
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Umberto Giordano
Fedora (Bicycle aria)
Singer: Nino Machaidze. Singer: Fabio Capitanucci. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie. Conductor: Alberto Veronesi.- Umberto Giordano: Fedora.
- DG.
- 10.
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Erik Satie
Sports et Divertissements: Le Golf & Le Tennis
Performer: Pascal Rog茅.- Satie: Piano Music (Classic FM: The Full Works).
- Decca (UMO) (Classics).
- 26.
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John Powell
Test Drive (From How To Train Your Dragon Music From The Motion Picture)
Performer: Studio Orchestra. Lyricist: John Powell. Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.- How To Train Your Dragon (Music From The Motion Picture).
- Varese Sarabande.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Wind Serenade Op.44 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Performer: Barbara Stegemann. Performer: Sharon Kam. Performer: Diemut Schneider. Performer: Stefan Schweigert. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Sibylle Mahni. Performer: Ozan 脟akar. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Hiroaki Aoe.- Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Op. 44 & String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106.
- Cavi-Music.
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Amy Beach
Berceuse (3 Pieces Op.40)
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- BIS.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 2 in G Major "London" (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 "London" & Symphony No. 8 in D Minor.
- Onyx Classics.
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Claude Debussy
La Mer; 2. Jeux de vagues
Music Arranger: Sally Beamish. Ensemble: Neave Trio.- CHANDOS.
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the Priest HWV.258
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.- ALPHA.
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Eric Coates
Music Everywhere (Rediffusion March)
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Alan Menken
The Bells of Notre Dame (From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Soundtrack)
Music Arranger: Anna Lapwood.- Firedove.
- Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
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Franz Schubert
6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: No. 1 in C Major: Moderato
Performer: Lars Vogt.- Schubert: Piano Works.
- Ondine.
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Pietro Locatelli
Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: IIIa. Andante
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer.- Locatelli: L'Arte del Violino 鈥� 12 Concertos, Op. 3.
- Hyperion.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony No 3 in E flat major "Rhenish", Op 97 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Berlin Phil.
Broadcast
- Thu 12 Jun 2025 09:30麻豆社 Radio 3