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.
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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.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (2nd mvmt, Larghetto)
Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.- Cedille.
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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.
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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.
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Alexander Scriabin
Study in C sharp minor, Op 2 No 1
Performer: Piers Lane.- Scriabin: The Complete Etudes.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Jean Coulthard
Bicycle Parade (Excursion)
Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.- Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
- Naxos.
- 26.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture to Egmont
Orchestra: Helsingin Barokkiorkesteri. Conductor: Aapo Häkkinen.- Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (Live).
- Ondine.
- 101.
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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.
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Robert Morton
Le souvenir de vous me tue
Ensemble: Le Miroir de Musique. Director: Baptiste Romain.- RICERCAR.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
February (Das Jahr)
Performer: Wolfram Lorenzen.- TROUBADISC.
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Jean Sibelius
Valse triste
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in C major (from Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth)
Ensemble: Zefiro.- Ambroisie.
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Ildebrando Pizzetti
Oscuro è il ciel
Performer: Hedayet Djeddikar. Singer: Sofia Pavone.- ARS PRODUKTION.
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Jean Coulthard
Bicycle Parade (Excursion)
Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.- Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
- Naxos.
- 26.
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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.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
En voyage
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Joly.- LYRITA.
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Frédéric Chopin
Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Perahia Plays Chopin.
- Sony Classical.
- 4.
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Jean Coulthard
Bicycle Parade (Excursion)
Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.- Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
- Naxos.
- 26.
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Benoît Charest
Générique d'ouverture, from the film Belleville Rendezvous
Performer: Benoît Charest.- Les triplettes de Belleville (Bande originale du film).
- Parlophone (France).
- 3.
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Luis Bacalov
In bicicletta
Performer: Luis Bacalov.- Il Postino (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Creazioni Artistiche Musicali.
- 2.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Josef Strauss
Vélocipède (polka schnell, Op 259)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Energy Classics.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 11.
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George Frideric Handel
Sinfonia, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Archiv.
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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.
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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.
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Joseph Haydn
Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 11.
- Chandos.
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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.
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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.
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Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Musicales Actes Sud.
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Franz Schubert
Nachtgesang im Walde D.913
Ensemble: amarcord. Ensemble: german hornsound.- Wald.Horn.Lied.
- Genuin.
- 21.
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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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