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A feast of great music

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.

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

Wed 4 Sep 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf (The Procession to the Zoo)

    Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RCA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • William Cornysh

    A Robyn, gentyl Robyn

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Metronome.
  • Jeanâ€Philippe Rameau

    Les Boreades: Overture

    Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • ERATO.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Quartet No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Korngold: The String Quartets.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fat Knight (Finale)

    Orchestrator: Martin Yates. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Dutton.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major

    Performer: Alessio Bax. Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra.
    • Forgotten Dances.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech Suite (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Dvorak: American Suite, Czech Suite; Overtures and Tone Poems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor for 2 violins and cello RV.578

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Performer: Alba Roca. Performer: Marco Ceccato. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Vivaldi: Festival de Sable.
    • ZIG ZAG TERRITOIRES.
    • 1-4.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes (Departures)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • James MacMillan

    Mouth of the Dumb (Os mutorum)

    Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Singer: Andrew Swait. Singer: Samantha Harris.
    • NMC.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation no.3

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • ORCHID.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Director: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.1 in G minor, Op.13 'Winter Daydreams' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne, Op 78

    Performer: Andrei Ioniţă. Performer: Lilit Grigoryan.
  • Domenico Zipoli

    Toccata (Sonate d'intavolatura, Op 1 No 15)

    Performer: James Johnstone.
    • Bolivian Baroque, Vol. 3: Music from the Missions and La Plata.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.
  • William Walton

    Henry V Suite: The Death of Falstaff

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius, Zukerman, Black, ECO, Barneboim.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Edward Elgar

    Falstaff. IV. The repudiation of Falstaff, and his death

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Tutto nel mondo è burla (Falstaff)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Singer: Daniil Shtoda. Singer: Enrico Facini. Singer: Anthony Mee. Singer: Anatoly Kocherga. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: Dorothea Röschmann. Singer: Larissa Diadkova. Singer: Stella Doufexis. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.81 in G major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • Haydn: Arie per un'amante.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur Z.628 (Act 5 Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • WINGED LION.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Cinnamon Grove (Allegretto)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 19.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Badinérie)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Philippe Racine. Director: Simon Preston.
    • Novalis.
  • Gustav Holst

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Étienne Méhul

    Symphony No 1 in G minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Méhul : Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 - Apex.
    • ERATO.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A major K.331)

    Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la for 4 voices

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
    • Reformation: Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pi.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Le Colibri, Op.2 no.7

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • Naive.
  • Anthony Newman

    Fansye

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 9 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 3.

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  • Wed 4 Sep 2024 09:30

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