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Celebrating classical greats

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

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

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 May 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No.2 in F major (op. 38)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • SONY.
  • André Caplet

    A la Francaise (2 Divertissements)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Divertissements.
    • Channel Classics Records.
    • 4.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Scherzo in D major, Op.16

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Solo E Pensoso.
    • Alpha.
    • 5.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Little Suite for Brass Band no.1 Op.80

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • SONY.
  • Woldemar Bargiel

    Piano Trio no.1 in F major Op.6 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    An die Nachtigall

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: James Atkinson.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Dances of Galanta

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Kodaly: Psalmus hungaricus, Marosszék Dances, Galánta Dances: Fischer.
    • Hungaroton.
    • 3.
  • Richard Wagner

    Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' arr. Liszt

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 8.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.2 in C major Op.53 (Valse)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Stuttgart Recordings.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 602.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Signum Quartet.
    • Quartet Movements: Signum Quartett.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.
  • Michael Nyman

    Prospero's Magic (Prospero's Books)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. Director: Michael Nyman.
    • Prospero's Books.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Shakespeare songs for chorus, no.2; The Cloud-capp'd towers

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Chandos.
  • Robert Mellin

    Robinson Crusoe

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • TV Themes.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 52.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • After Silence.
    • Voces8 Records.
  • Improvisation

    °ä²¹²Ôá°ù¾±´Ç²õ

    Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Partita no.4 in D major BWV.828 (Allemande)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan, Op. 20

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • The Asia Tour.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 101.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER.
  • Anon.

    Galliarde

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Rippe: Works for lute 'Un perfaict sonneur de Leut'.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 18.
  • Ernesto Lecuona

    °äó°ù»å´Ç²ú²¹

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • SOLATINO.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Thomas Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • When Sleep Comes: Evening Meditations for Voices & Saxophone.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Sextet in D major Op.10 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet. Performer: Jennifer Stumm. Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Federico García Lorca

    El Cafe de Chinitas (Canciones espanolas antiguas)

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

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  • Thu 16 May 2024 09:30

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