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

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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Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (La vida breve)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jes煤s L贸pez Cobos.
    • Falla: La Vida Breve: Lopez-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony Orchstra.
    • Telarc.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Symphony in E major, 'Irish' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Sullivan: Symphony in E major 'Irish': 麻豆社 Phil/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Entr'acte)

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 012.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Capricho Arabe

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milos: The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Karl Davydov

    At the Fountain, Op.20 no.2

    Performer: Leonid Gorokhov. Performer: Colin Stone.
    • Olympia.
  • Ambroise Thomas

    Mignon (Overture)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D Major, TWV.54:D3

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1 - 4.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 28.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op.91)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: 麻豆社 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • James P. Johnson

    Charleston

    Featured Artist: St茅phane Grappelli. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • The Very Best Of.
    • Stardust.
    • 28.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Serenata in E flat major

    Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio Brillante in B minor, Op.22

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hole in the Wall [Hornpipe] (Abdelazer)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 6.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four English Dances, Set 1, Op 27

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Roman Sketches, Op. 7: III. The Fountain of the Acqua Paola. Allegro mo

    • Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Robert Lowry

    Shall We Gather At The River

    Singer: Bruce Molsky. Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Alphonse Jean Hasselmans

    Concert Study: 'La Source'

    Performer: Marisa Robles.
    • Pieces From My Childhood.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Singer: Oksana Volkova. Singer: Francesco Demuro. Singer: Nadine Sierra. Orchestra: Kauno Miesto Simfoninis Orkestras. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Verdi: Rigoletto.
    • Delos.
    • 204.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 14 No.2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation in D flat Major

    Performer: Stomu Yamashta. Music Arranger: Stomu Yamashta.
    • Listen to the Future.
    • SONY Music Entertainment Japan.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.3 in F major Op.90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Symphonies: Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Concert Waltz in B flat major

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Sergei Nakariakov: Trumpet & Piano.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050

    Performer: Malcolm Proud. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.
  • Josef Strauss

    Dorfschwalben aus 脰sterreich, Walzer, Op. 164

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Mandolin Concerto in E Flat Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major Op. 40 No. 2 Hob.15.7; 3rd mvt Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Symphonic Serenade (Finale)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.

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