Your perfect classical playlist
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
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
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26
Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- BIS.
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George Frideric Handel
Rejoice Greatly (Messiah)
Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.- ERATO.
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Ottorino Respighi
Violin Sonata in B minor (1st mvt)
Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.- Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
- WARNER CLASSICS.
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William Byrd
Rorate coeli
Ensemble: Stile Antico.- Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Takashi Yoshimatsu
White Landscapes, Op. 47a; (2nd mvt)
Performer: John Barrow. Performer: Jonathan Price. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.- Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto etc..
- CHANDOS.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3, Nos.2 & 3
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Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier
4 No毛ls sur les instruments H.531, 534
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Christmas Concertos.
- Archiv.
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Arthur Butterworth
Gigues
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Butterworth.- A Butterworth, Symphony no.5: RSNO/Butterworth.
- Epoch.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in D major, H XV 24 (1st mvt)
Performer: Susan Tomes. Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: Richard Lester. Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.- Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
- Hyperion.
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Bedrich Smetana
Vltava (M谩 vlast)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Frederick Delius
Sleigh Ride [Winter Night]
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.- Christmas Fantasy.
- DECCA.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Septet in D minor Op.74 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- CRD.
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Sally Beamish
In the Stillness
Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.- Advent Calendar.
- harmonia mundi.
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Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Carol Symphony (Prelude)
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.- Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony.
- Naxos.
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Edward Elgar
2 Partsongs for female chorus, 2 violins and piano (Op.26), no.1; The Snow
Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Jeremy Ballard. Performer: Robin Thurlby. Performer: Keith Swallow. Conductor: Donald Hunt.- Elgar: The Complete Choral Songs: Worcester Cathedral Choir, The Donald Hunt Sin.
- Hyperion.
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Claude Debussy
The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)
Music Arranger: Isao Tomita. Performer: Isao Tomita.- Tomita: Snowflakes are dancing.
- RCA.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December: Christmas (The Seasons, Op 37b arr Gauk)
Music Arranger: Aleksander Vasil'yevich Gauk. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance
Performer: Melvyn Tan.- Miroirs.
- Onyx.
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Benjamin Britten
A Hymn to the Virgin
Performer: Patricia Forbes. Performer: Christopher Royall. Performer: Neil MacKenzie. Performer: Simon Birchall. Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.- An English Christmas Collection: The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
- Coro.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for viola d'amore and strings in A minor, RV397
Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Hopkinson Smith. Ensemble: Ars Antigua.- CEDILLE.
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Arnold Bax
Christmas Eve - tone poem
Performer: Malcolm Hicks. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- CHANDOS CHAN.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in C minor, D 899 No 1
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
- CBS.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Le No毛l des Oiseaux
Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Florian Helgath.- The Christmas Album.
- Alpha Classics.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Romance in F minor Op.11
Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.- Archiv.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
- Hyperion.
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