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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 – 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 6 Nov 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Revolutionary Study' in C minor, Op .10 no.12

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Recordings.
  • 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.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Peter Nagy.
    • Leonidas Kavakos plays….
    • Delos.
    • 1.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.
  • Robert Lowry

    Shall We Gather At The River

    Singer: Bruce Molsky. Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd girl's dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Music Arranger: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.5 in D minor Op.47 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Anon.

    Larghetto in C sharp minor 'Nocturne oublie'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin Nocturnes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Polka

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • NONESUCH.
  • John Christopher Smith

    O balmy Sleep! (Rebecca)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Laurence Cummings.
    • CHACONNE.
  • Richard Wagner

    Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • SONY CLASSICS.
  • 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.
  • Reinhard Keiser

    Croesus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 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.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances, etc.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 013.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Trad.

    Down to the River to Pray

    Music Arranger: Alison Krauss. Performer: Alison Krauss.
    • Mercury Nashville.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Má vlast) - conclusion

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • DG.
  • 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.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Rosita

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Cavatina.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Harpsichord Suite no.2 (L'Amiable; gracieux) [Pieces de Clavecin, 1746]

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • ERATO.
  • 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.
  • Giacomo Carissimi

    Historia di Jephte (conclusion)

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: The City Musick. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CORO.
  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Gaucho - tango brasileiro

    Performer: Arnaldo Cohen.
    • BIS.
  • 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.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.1 in A flat major Op.55 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Des Müllers Blumen (Die Schöne Müllerin)

    Singer: Christoph Prégardien. Performer: Michael Gees.
    • Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • César Portillo de la Luz

    Contigo en la Distancia

    Music Arranger: Jorge Aragón. Ensemble: The Sarahbanda. Conductor: Sarah Willis.
    • Sarahbanda.
    • ALPHA.
    • 5.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op.38

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances - Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV.229

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Bach: The Motets.
    • BIS.
    • 1-2.
  • 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.
    • 1.

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  • Wed 6 Nov 2024 09:30

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