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The very best of classical music

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.

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1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

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Music Played

  • Richard Rodgers

    Prologue: The Carousel Waltz (from 'Carousel')

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 驶F眉r Elise始

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Beethoven: Fur Elise, Bagatelles Opp. 33, 119 & 126.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 125.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto Op. 58; 3. Allegro ritmico

    Composer: Ruth Gipps. Performer: Martin Owen. Performer: Martin Owen. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano quintet in G minor Op.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.

  • Mia Makaroff

    Butterfly

    Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Tom Bullard.
    • NYCGB.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Gavotte 1 and 2)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach - The Orchestral Suites.
    • ACCENT.
    • 10.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Alto Saxophone Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Harle. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Saxophone Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no.1

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Triumph of Time and Truth; Aria: "Tu del ciel ministro eletto"

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha茂m. Ensemble: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e.
    • Handel Il Trionfo Del Tempo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.

  • Miriam Hyde

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor, 3rd mvt 'Allegro scherzando'

    Performer: Miriam Hyde. Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 03.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet no.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Paul Schoenfield

    Vaudeville: A Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet - 2. Bear dance

    Performer: Wolfgang Basch. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Schoenfield: 4 Parables; Vaudeville; Klezmer Rondos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 ('Italian'): 4th mvt Saltarello

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 \"Italian\", Symphony No. 5 \"Reformation\" & Th.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Ji艡铆 Anton铆n Benda

    Concerto for keyboard in F minor; 1st mvt - Allegro

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Performer: London Mozart Players.
    • The Classical Piano Concerto series.
    • HYPERION.
    • 01.

  • Jessica Curry

    Clouds and Starlight

    Conductor: James Morgan. Choir: Metro Voices. Choir: London Voices.
    • Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Original Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 2 (Op.1b), Moths and Butterflies (Dance)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 10.

  • Raymond Hubbell

    Poor Butterfly

    Singer: Sarah Vaughan. Ensemble: Hal Mooney & His Orchestra.
    • Jazz Legends: The Essential Sarah Vaughan.
    • Twenty20 Records.
    • 5.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore, Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)

    Singer: Pene Pati. Orchestra: National Orchestra of Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Pene Pati.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Vivaldi: La Viole de gambe in Concerto: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Collection 2: The Concerto Recordings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Henri Mulet

    Carillon-sortie in D major

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Organ Fireworks V.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 28 in C major, K 200

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Mozart: The Symphonies: Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 1-4.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    • MCA Records.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: X. October. Autumn Song

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Dance of the Comedians)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Little Pearls of Czech Classics: Czech Philharmonic Orch/Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Sure on this shining night (Nocturnes)

    Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Morten Lauridsen. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Lauridsen: Nocturnes, Mid-Winter Songs, Les Chansons des Roses: Polyphony, Layto.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 (Rondo alla Zingarese)

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Sony.

  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

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