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Celebrating classical greats

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jakub Hr暖拧a.
    • Tchaikovsky/Bruch: Violin Concertos: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B flat major, Op 23 No 2

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • COLBURN.
  • Rutland Boughton

    3 Folk Dances

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • R. Boughton: Aylesbury Games etc: Beynon/New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV.1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • J.S. Bach: Cello Suites 1, 4 and 5: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland on her hearse

    Choir: Royal Holloway Choir. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Alan Menken

    Beauty and the Beast (Overture)

    Music Arranger: James Shearman. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Kosarin.
    • Beauty and the Beast.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: III. Presto - Molto allegr

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Smetana Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Streichquartette Nr. 12 and 14.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Partenope (Overture)

    Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Eric Coates

    Green Hills o'Somerset

    Performer: Christopher Glynn. Singer: Kathryn Rudge.
    • Coates: Songs.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 15.
  • Dorothy Howell

    The Rock

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.
  • William Byrd

    Quomodo cantabimus

    Music Arranger: Edmund Horace Fellowes.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Frederic Chopin.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Overture in A major

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the Trumpet/Lost is my Quiet

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
    • Lost is My Quiet - Duets and Solo Songs.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Op 66 (Act 1: Garland Waltz...Rose Adagio)

    Orchestra: Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • Sony.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long Day Closes

    Composer: Henry F. Chorley. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Sirens' Song.
    • CORO.
    • 24.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for clarinet and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 trumpets and orchestra RV.537 in C major: 1st mvt

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Sony.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major D.667 "Trout" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Performer: Corina Belcea. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Alasdair Tait. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades: Piano Quintet & Schubert: Piano Quintet.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Barber: Cello concerto/sonata/Adagio: SCO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Troika (Concerto for euphonium and brass band)

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • Moto Perpetuo - David Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K 459

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart; English Chamber Orchestra/Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

    Estampie ancienne, 'Kalenda Maya'

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon (The House of Life)

    Orchestrator: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 13.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Naxos.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major, Kk.96

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Alpha.

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