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 – 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
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Frédéric Chopin
'Revolutionary Study' in C minor, Op .10 no.12
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.- Berlin Philharmonic Recordings.
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George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus (opening chorus)
Choir: Chorus of Les Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Handel: Dixit Dominus; Salve Regina; Laudate Pueri; Saeviat Tellus.
- ARCHIV.
- 19.
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William Kroll
Banjo and Fiddle
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Peter Nagy.- Leonidas Kavakos plays….
- Delos.
- 1.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Concertino (3rd mvt)
Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.- DG.
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Robert Lowry
Shall We Gather At The River
Singer: Bruce Molsky. Ensemble: Anonymous 4.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Hugo Alfvén
Shepherd girl's dance (The Mountain King Op.37)
Music Arranger: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.- BIS.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony no.5 in D minor Op.47 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- DG.
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Anon.
Larghetto in C sharp minor 'Nocturne oublie'
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Chopin Nocturnes.
- Hyperion.
- 10.
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Alfred Schnittke
Polka
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.- NONESUCH.
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John Christopher Smith
O balmy Sleep! (Rebecca)
Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Laurence Cummings.- CHACONNE.
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Richard Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- SONY CLASSICS.
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Camille Saintâ€Saëns
Cello Concerto no.2 in D minor Op.119 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Lynn Harrell. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Reinhard Keiser
Croesus (Overture)
Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: René Jacobs.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Louis Vierne
Organ Symphony no.1 in D minor Op.14 (6th mvt)
Performer: Peter Hurford.- Romantic Organ Music, Vol. 2.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 5.
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Edvard Grieg
Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- Grieg: Symphonic Dances, etc.
- CHANDOS.
- 013.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV.645
Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Nikolai Demidenko.- J.S.Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 02 - Ferruccio Busoni: Demidenko.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Constant Lambert
The Rio Grande
Singer: Sally Burgess. Performer: Jack Gibbons. Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.- Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament; The Rio Grande.
- HYPERION.
- 1.
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Trad.
Down to the River to Pray
Music Arranger: Alison Krauss. Performer: Alison Krauss.- Mercury Nashville.
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Bedrich Smetana
Vltava (Má vlast) - conclusion
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.- DG.
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Michael Tippett
Deep River (A Child of Our Time)
Singer: Cynthia Haymon. Singer: Cynthia Clarey. Singer: Damon Evans. Singer: Willard White. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Francisco Tárrega
Rosita
Performer: Göran Söllscher.- Cavatina.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 4.
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Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
Harpsichord Suite no.2 (L'Amiable; gracieux) [Pieces de Clavecin, 1746]
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- ERATO.
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John Williams
Raiders March (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.- John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection.
- Sony Classical.
- 1.
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Giacomo Carissimi
Historia di Jephte (conclusion)
Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: The City Musick. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.- CORO.
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Chiquinha Gonzaga
Gaucho - tango brasileiro
Performer: Arnaldo Cohen.- BIS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- Flow.
- Pentatone.
- 2.
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Edward Elgar
Symphony no.1 in A flat major Op.55 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
Des Müllers Blumen (Die Schöne Müllerin)
Singer: Christoph Prégardien. Performer: Michael Gees.- Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin.
- Challenge Classics.
- 9.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Mandolin Concerto in C major RV.425 (1st mvt)
Performer: Paul O’Dette. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.- Vivaldi: Music for Lute and Mandolin; Paul O'Dette, The Parley of Instruments.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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César Portillo de la Luz
Contigo en la Distancia
Music Arranger: Jorge Aragón. Ensemble: The Sarahbanda. Conductor: Sarah Willis.- Sarahbanda.
- ALPHA.
- 5.
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Alexander Scriabin
Waltz in A flat major, Op.38
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Dances - Benjamin Grosvenor.
- Decca.
- 14.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV.229
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- Bach: The Motets.
- BIS.
- 1-2.
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William Walton
Violin Concerto in B minor (1st mvt)
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto.
- Warner Classics.
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