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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.

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

Fri 26 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • 100 Best Ballet.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major, 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent, Vol. 1.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Ave Maria (Vespers, No 6)

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil.
    • Ondine.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute concerto in D major, RV.93

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Second Essay: Echo

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 in G major, Op 88 (3rd mvmt, Allegretto grazioso)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Whither must I wander? (Songs of Travel)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Naxos.
  • Anon.

    Propinán de Melyor

    Ensemble: Piffaro.
    • LOS MINISTRILES: Spanish Renaissance Wind Music.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 18.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa.
    • ECM.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Overture)

    Orchestra: Kolner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 109.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2 no.3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee susse (Coffee Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Second Essay: Echo

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sleeping Beauty: Introduction (The Lilac Fairy)

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko.
    • Tchaikovksy: Orchestral Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 401.
  • Seóirse Bodley

    Symphony No 2, 'I have loved the lands of Ireland' (7th mvmt)

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Houlihan.
    • RTE Lyric fm.
  • Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen

    String Quartet No 5 in F major (4th mvmt, Minuetto)

    Ensemble: Accademia della Magnifica Comunita.
    • Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartets Nos. 1-6.
    • Tactus.
    • 504.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Tarentelle Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Synergy.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Second Essay: Echo

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • Mel Bonis

    Narcisse

    Performer: Claudine Simon.
    • Ligia.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas: In our deep vaulted cell; Echo Dance of Furies

    Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • El poder de Purcell.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
  • Duke Ellington

    Echoes of Harlem

    Director: Oliver Nelson.
    • Three Shades of Blue.
    • Ace Records.
    • 3.
  • Jacob van Eyck

    Fantasia and Echo

    Performer: Frauke Rauterberg.
    • Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof.
    • primTON.
    • 5.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls)

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Serenade; Les Illuminations; Nocturne.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pan and Echo

    Orchestra: Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri. Conductor: Shuntaro Sato.
    • FINLANDIA.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayane)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 111.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major

    Orchestra: The Women’s Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Koch.
  • Philip Herbert

    Elegy for 18 strings (In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in D major, Op 5 No 1 (6th mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 22.

Broadcast

  • Fri 26 Jan 2024 09:00

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