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Celebrating classical greats

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 21 Jun 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin

    Performer: Åžefika Kutluer. Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Bizet - Ravel - Debussy - Fauré - Ibert: Carmen Fantasy for Flute & Piano.
    • VDE-GALLO.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Serenade Op.37

    Performer: Daniel Müllerâ€Schott. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov.
    • Trip to Russia.
    • Orfeo.
    • 601.
  • Will Gregory

    High life

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ellipsos.
    • United Colors.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 102.
  • Percy Whitlock

    Spade and Bucket Polka (Holiday Suite)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Midsummer Moon

    Performer: Jonathan Rees. Performer: Kathron Sturrock.
    • Rebecca Clarke.
    • Gamut Classics.
    • 7.
  • James Oswald

    Poppy (Airs for the Seasons - Summer)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.
    • Full of the Highland Humours.
    • EM Records.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (Arr. for Orch by Schoenberg) iv Rondo

    Performer: Kansas City Symphony. Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 116.
  • Irving Berlin

    Cheek to Cheek

    Performer: Fred Astaire. Orchestra: Leo Reisman and His Orchestra.
    • Verve.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt.
    • DaCapo.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    The Way to Polden

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Anvil Chorus (Il trovatore)

    Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Famous Opera Choruses: Haitink.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Souvenirs de voyage (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hermann Gershwin Waxman Copland.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 1 Op.1a - Sun Dance

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • EMI.
  • Trad.

    Ar lan y mor

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Gareth Jones.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.
  • Alain Romans

    Quel temps fait-il à Paris

    Performer: No performers credited.
    • Polygram.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg... (from BWV 149)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach - Cantatas Vol. 50.
    • BIS.
    • 001.
  • William Grant Still

    Cumbia y congo (Danzas de Panama)

    Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet.
    • Centaur.
  • Jon Lord

    Evening Song

    Performer: Fiona Paterson. Performer: David Pigott. Performer: Tim Nicholson. Performer: Thelma Handy. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Jon Lord: To Notice Such Things.
    • Avie.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818, Op. 54: II. Marcia. Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Pavel Kolesnikov. Ensemble: Samson Tsoy.
    • Schubert: Divertissement à la Hongroise, Fantasie in F Minor - Desyatnikov: Trom.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Le midi'

    Director: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Archiv.
  • Arnold Bax

    Concertante (2nd mvt)

    Performer: John Bradbury. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Chandos.
  • York Bowen

    Obbligato to Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • A Lionel Tertis Celebration.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 14.
  • William Walton

    Prelude (Richard III)

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • The Walton Edition.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Serenata in E flat major

    Orchestra: Members of the Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Symphony no. 1 - II: Allegro molto vivace

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Fri 21 Jun 2024 09:30

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