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Relax into the day with classical

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

Wed 7 Feb 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings Op.48 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes.
    • DG.
    • 28.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Tu es Petrus

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C K.373

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Mozart Anniversary Orchestra.
    • CACBC.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legends Op.59 (no.3 in G minor)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: Legends Op.59: ECO, Mackerras.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevičius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Quartet movement in A minor

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • ORFEO.
  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-danse (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.31 in D major 'Hornsignal' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fantaisie Op.79

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • ALPHA.
  • Trad.

    Drunken Sailor

    Music Arranger: Bryn Terfel. Music Arranger: Patrick Rimes. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Performer: Ben Tunnicliffe. Performer: Patrick Rimes. Performer: Evan Carson.
    • Sea Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.4 in A major BWV.1055

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • After Silence.
    • Voces8 Records.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ice Floes (Scott of the Antarctic)

    Ensemble: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Film Music Vol. 1.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 006.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erstarrung (Winterreise D.911)

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert Winterreise: Mark Padmore - Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Harri Wessman

    Water under snow is weary [Vesi väsyy lumen alle]

    Lyricist: Eha Lättemäe. Choir: Tapiolan kuoro. Conductor: Erkki Pohjola.
    • Songs Building Bridges.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 18.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Schneemann (Prelude; Serenade)

    Performer: Heinz Haunold. Orchestrator: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Orchestral Music.
    • ASV.
    • 8-9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, bk 1)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy Preludes.
    • DG.
    • 6.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini OverturesThe Chamber Orchestra Of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 7.
  • Michael Nyman

    The Disposition of the Linen (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band.
    • The Composer's Cut Series, Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract.
    • Michael Nyman Records.
    • 5.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture Burlesque TWV.55:B8 (extracts)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Symphony for organ no 5: Toccata

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Fantasia no.1 in G minor a 4 [1611]

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.

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