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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is British tenor Ian Bostridge. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers – our featured artist this week is tenor Ian Bostridge.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 29 Mar 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas No. 1 in D minor/major arranged for mandolin and accordion

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Richard Galliano.
    • Avi Avital - Between Worlds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Mel Bonis

    Ophélie (Trois femmes de legende)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Jeanâ€Baptiste Lully

    La fête infernale; Les démons (Suite from Alceste)

    Orchestra: Concert Des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 28.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Le Grillon [Nocturne no.4) Op.60bis

    Performer: Etsuko Hirose.
    • DANACORD.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reve (Orchestral Suite no.1)

    Orchestrator: Philippe Manoury. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: Françoisâ€Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Christian Forshaw

    In paradisum

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Christian Forshaw. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • When Sleep Comes: Evening Meditations for Voices & Saxophone.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Viola d'amore Concerto in A major, RV.396

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Enchantment (Beyond The Dream)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 14.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Uppsala Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • BIS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor D.915

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata D.845, Wandererfantasie D.760: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the Heaven

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Exultavit cor meum in Domino

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: Matthew Knight.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 601.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 203.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.50:1 'Grillen-Symphonie' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Grasshopper (2 Insect Pieces)

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Ernest Bucalossi

    The Grasshopper's Dance

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.
  • Josquin des Prez

    El Grillo

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • Erato.
  • Duke Ellington

    Lightning Bugs and Frogs [The Queen's Suite]

    Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Ellington Suites.
    • PABLO.
    • 002.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Song of the Flea

    Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Great Operatic Arias.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Since she whom I loved (The Holy Sonnets of John Donne)

    Author: John Donne. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Britten: The Red Cockatoo & other songs: Bostridge, Johnson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, Op.56`3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Bis.
  • Karl Goldmark

    Scherzo in E Minor, Op. 19

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Goldmark: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 1.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio for violin, cello and piano

    Ensemble: Trio Karénine.
    • Fauré, Ravel & Tailleferre.
    • Mirare.
    • 8-11.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Concerto for violin and small orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Finzi: Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Matinée de Provence

    Singer: Brigitte Desnoues. Choir: Choeur de Paris-Sorbonne. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • Prix de Rome Cantatas.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 10.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Rondo in D minor Wq.61`4

    Performer: Danny Driver.
    • CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonatas II: Danny Driver.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Staatskapelle. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.

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