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Celebrating classical greats

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

Music Played

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Adams: The Shaker Loops/The Wound Dresser: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Alsop.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (2nd mvmt, Larghetto)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Cedille.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No 3 in G minor, Op 36 (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.
  • Francesco Barsanti

    Concerto grosso in C major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • Edinburgh 1742 - Barsanti & Handel, Parte Seconda.
    • LINN.
    • 1-4.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Study in C sharp minor, Op 2 No 1

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Scriabin: The Complete Etudes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture to Egmont

    Orchestra: Helsingin Barokkiorkesteri. Conductor: Aapo Häkkinen.
    • Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (Live).
    • Ondine.
    • 101.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Robert Morton

    Le souvenir de vous me tue

    Ensemble: Le Miroir de Musique. Director: Baptiste Romain.
    • RICERCAR.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    February (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Wolfram Lorenzen.
    • TROUBADISC.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in C major (from Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth)

    Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Oscuro è il ciel

    Performer: Hedayet Djeddikar. Singer: Sofia Pavone.
    • ARS PRODUKTION.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in F major, Op 46 No 4

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorák: Slavonic Dances Opp. 46 & 72.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.
  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    En voyage

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Joly.
    • LYRITA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.
  • Benoît Charest

    Générique d'ouverture, from the film Belleville Rendezvous

    Performer: Benoît Charest.
    • Les triplettes de Belleville (Bande originale du film).
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 3.
  • Luis Bacalov

    In bicicletta

    Performer: Luis Bacalov.
    • Il Postino (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Creazioni Artistiche Musicali.
    • 2.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)

    Performer: Richard Suart. Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • That's Entertainment.
  • Harry Dacre

    Daisy (A Bicycle Built For Two)

    Performer: John Fahey. Music Arranger: John Fahey.
    • The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites.
    • Concord Records.
    • 13.
  • Harry Dacre

    On a bicycle built for two

    Singer: Nat King Cole. Conductor: Ralph Carmichael.
    • Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 4.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Suite from the film On The Waterfront (final section)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" & Symphonic Suite from the Fi.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Poème de l'amour et de la mer (Le temps des lilas)

    Singer: Waltraud Meier. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Roselyne Bachelot - Salut à la France !.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Josef Strauss

    Vélocipède (polka schnell, Op 259)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Energy Classics.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Nicola Piovani

    Buongiorno principessa (Life is Beautiful)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • 侱é.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 14.
  • Sonya Belousova

    Toss a Coin to your Witcher (The Witcher)

    Composer: Giona Ostinelli. Performer: Esther Abrami. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • 侱é.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 11.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Allan Pettersson

    Barefoot Songs: Jungfrun och ljugnarpust (The maiden and the lying wind)

    Orchestrator: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: Nordiska Kammarorkestern. Conductor: Christian Lindberg. Singer: Anders Larsson.
    • Pettersson: Complete Edition.
    • BIS.
    • 913.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2 (Adagio)

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Artist Portrait: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Franz Schubert

    Nachtgesang im Walde D.913

    Ensemble: amarcord. Ensemble: german hornsound.
    • Wald.Horn.Lied.
    • Genuin.
    • 21.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Celebration Dance)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Roald Dahl).
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 20.

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