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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.

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.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 25 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and gigue in D major for 3 violins and continuo

    Performer: Leila Schayegh. Ensemble: La Centifolia.
    • Ciaconna!.
    • Glossa.
    • 16.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture Op.26

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Herasâ€Casado.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms: Morning-Barcarolle

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Direct to Tape.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies nos. 7 & 8: Berliner Philharmoniker/Kubelik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Catriona McKay

    Swan LK243

    Performer: Catriona McKay. Performer: Donald Grant. Ensemble: Red Skies string ensemble.
    • Glimster.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro

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

    Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Music Arranger: Erwin Wiersinga.
    • Images.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore Concerto in E minor, TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Scottish Waltz - Allegretto (4 Scottish dances)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
  • Trad.

    Traditional: My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose (Arr. EÅ¡envalds)

    Performer: Gareth McLearnon. Lyricist: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Minnelied, Op. 71 No. 5 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Lionel Tertis)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Frank Dupree. Music Arranger: Lionel Tertis.
    • A Lionel Tertis Celebration.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 107.
  • Ewan MacColl

    The Shoals of Herring

    Singer: Ewan MacColl.
    • Black and White.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 8.
  • Herbert Sumsion

    They that go down to the sea in ships

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Performer: David Leigh. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • Leigh, David: British Church Composer Series Vol.9.
    • PRIORY.
    • 9.
  • Maeve Gilchrist

    February Bright

    • 20 Chandler Street.
    • Adventure Music.
    • 5.
  • Scotland.Traditional

    Skye Boat Song

    • Introducing Paul Robeson.
    • Nostalgia Music Catalog.
    • 1.
  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach 'Ave Maria'

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Jessye Norman at Notre-Dame.
    • Philips.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 109: III. Finale. Allegro commodo

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 103.
  • Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op 46 (Finale)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory MacDonald.
    • Nicola Benedetti - Â鶹ԼÅÄcoming.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un jardin clair [3 Morceaux]

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 1001.
  • James McMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Etude no.110 in A major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 128.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Alison Balsom - Légende - Tom Poster.
    • Warner.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor RV.566

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Italian Concertos: Concerto Koln.
    • Capriccio.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: LSO Wind Ensemble.
    • MOZART Serenade No 10 for winds Gran Partita.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

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