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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

Fri 4 Oct 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • New Year Concert 2012.
    • Sony.
    • 5.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Classical Hits: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Overture: Men of Sherwood Forest

    Conductor: Gavin Sutherland. Orchestra: 鶹 Concert Orchestra.
    • Dutton.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 12 (Preludio)

    Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Corelli: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6.
    • Hyperion.
    • 60.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • HYPERION.
  • Melanie Bonis

    Scènes de la Forêt (Pour Artémis)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Richard Dilley. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Liberté, Égalité, Sororité.
    • AMBACHE RECORDINGS.
    • 8.
  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (2 Elegiac melodies Op.34)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Adriaan Willaert

    Vecchie letrose

    Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • William Grant Still

    Miniatures (No 1, I Ride an Old Paint)

    Performer: Calico Winds. Music Arranger: Adam Lesnick.
    • Vintage America.
    • Albany Records.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K 488 (3rd mvmt, Allegro assai)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Richard Strauss

    At Sunset (Im Abendrot), from Four Last Songs

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Singer: Felicity Lott. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Strauss: Orchestral Songs, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 116.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet.
    • Zia.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
    • 14.
  • Melanie Bonis

    Scènes de la Forêt (Pour Artémis)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Richard Dilley. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Liberté, Égalité, Sororité.
    • AMBACHE RECORDINGS.
    • 8.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Inganno felice (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Gabriel Grovlez

    Petites litanies de Jésus (L'Almanach aux images, No 8)

    Performer: Peter Katin.
    • Childrens Corner.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jacques Zoon. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Ottavio Dantone. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra Mozart, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Chineke! Records.
  • Melanie Bonis

    Scènes de la Forêt (Pour Artémis)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Richard Dilley. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Liberté, Égalité, Sororité.
    • AMBACHE RECORDINGS.
    • 8.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Actéon (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • M.A. Charpentier: Actéon & Intermèdes nouveaux du Mariage forcé.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • Scott Joplin

    Aunt Dinah has blowed the horn (Treemonisha, Act 2)

    Music Arranger: Gunther Schuller. Orchestra: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. Choir: Houston Grand Opera Chorus. Conductor: Gunther Schuller.
    • Scott Joplin: Treemonisha.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 18.
  • Charles Koechlin

    La Chasse d'Artémis (No 5 of 11 Monodies, Op 216)

    Performer: Dirk Altmann.
    • Koechlin: Chamber Music.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 4.
  • Leos Janáček

    The Cunning Little Vixen (final scene)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Singer: Olivia Solomou. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • John Williams

    The Raiders' March (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite No 5 in F major (Aire No 1)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Royal Consort.
    • Linn.
    • 19.
  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Marietta's Song (Die Tote Stadt)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs of Comfort and Hope.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major, Op 11 No 5 (Minuet and Trio)

    Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 13.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    The Golden Spinning-Wheel

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.
  • Reena Esmail

    We look for you (A Winter Breviary, No 1)

    Choir: St Martin's Voices. Conductor: Andrew Earis.
    • A Winter Breviary: Choral Works for Christmas.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25 (3rd mvmt)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni.
    • Il Tenore.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Sinfonia da Pacifica (3rd mvt, Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Marin Marais

    La Rêveuse (Suitte d'un gout etranger)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Tous les matins du monde (Bande originale du film).
    • Aliavox.
    • 8.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DaCapo.

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  • Fri 4 Oct 2024 09:30

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