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Classical coffee break

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.

0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Tue 23 Jan 2024 09:00
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Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlesienne Suite no.2)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HYPERION.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Valse)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warners.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (Roméo et Juliette)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.
    • Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
    • Erato.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Vertigo (Prelude)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major H.15.25 'Gypsy Rondo' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourrée fantasque

    Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.
    • Elatus.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    12 Fantasies TWV.40:14-25 (no.8 in E major)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • HYPERION.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Jurowski Conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • LPO.
    • 002.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B Major, D.575 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Weber & Schubert: Sonatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Un'aura amorosa (Cosi fan tutte)

    Singer: Rainer Trost. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: Höör Barock. Director: Dan Laurin.
    • BIS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Organ Sonata in C minor, Op 65 No 2 (2nd & 3rd mvts)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • ARGO.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Look! Up there (Flight)

    Singer: Christopher Robson. Singer: Claron McFadden. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-10197.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Thomas Adès

    Concentric Paths (Rings [conclusion])

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Thomas Adès.
    • Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Le Vertigo (Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 1746)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Vertigo.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Richard Strauss

    Alpine Symphony (On the Summit; Vision)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Zez Confrey

    Dizzy Fingers

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • HYPERION.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Romance in A major Op.69

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja. Orchestra: Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • WARNER.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Introduction and tarantelle Op.43

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert Macdonald.
    • SONY.

  • Clara Schumann

    Evening celebration in Venice (3 Part Songs)

    Choir: North German Radio Choir. Conductor: Philipp Ahmann.
    • Es-Dur.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fantasiestucke Op.5 (Humorseque)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • HMV.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Tu del Ciel ministro eletto (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • ERATO.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.9 in E flat major Op.70 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 101.

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  • Tue 23 Jan 2024 09:00
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