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Classical coffee break

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

Tue 6 Feb 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana (Dance)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Orff: Carmina burana.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor Op.9 no.1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 1.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Symphony in B minor Op.4 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ recording.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die schΓΆne Melusine (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio MΓ©ndez.
    • Schumann & Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
    • LINN.
    • 4.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto Γ  5 in F major Op.7`9

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: The Collected Concertos for Oboes and Strings.
    • Chaconne.
    • 24-26.
  • Julie Cooper

    VENUS in Sunlight Grey

    Performer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Clio Gould. Performer: Camilla Pay. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble. Conductor: Simon Hale. Conductor: Simon Hale.
    • Oculus.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 111.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    ·‘²υ±θ²ΉΓ±²Ή

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Joan Ambrosio Dalza

    Piva alla ferrarese

    Ensemble: Ex Umbris.
    • DORIAN.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet no.2 in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 10.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz no.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Liszt - The Collection.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Moondog

    Pastoral II

    Music Arranger: Sean Shibe. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Lost & Found.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 106.
  • Marianna Martines

    Bella fiamma del mio core (Il primo amore)

    Singer: NΓΊria Rial. Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.
    • Stanford: Music for Piano & Orchestra.
    • Claves Records.
    • 1.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String quintet in E major Op.11 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Smithsonian Chamber Players.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets Op.11, Nos. 4-6.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Trad.

    Mari Llwyd

    Music Arranger: Grace Williams. Ensemble: Counterpoint. Conductor: Robert De Cormier.
    • Counterpoint Sings Noel.
    • Albany Records.
    • 4.
  • Geoffrey Toye

    The Haunted Ballroom (Waltz)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Le tre Grazie a Venere

    Singer: Jolle Greenleaf. Singer: Molly Quinn. Singer: Virginia Warnken. Performer: Josh Lee. Performer: Jeffrey Grossman.
    • Avie AV2326.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Nuages gris S.199

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Fats Waller

    Blue turning grey over you

    Singer: Billie Holiday.
    • The Aladdin Records Story.
    • AudioSonic Music.
    • 44.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro)

    Music Arranger: Jan Nepomuk Vent. Ensemble: BlΓ€ser der Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 & La clemenza di Tito, K. 492.
    • Orfeo.
    • 108.
  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Orchestra: Michael Nyman Band.
    • Argo.
  • Augusta HolmΓ¨s

    Overture for a Comedy

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Augusta HolmΓ¨s: Orchestral Works.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 3.
  • Giorgio Federico Ghedini

    Concerto for 2 cellos 'L'olmeneta' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nikolay Shugaev. Performer: Dmitrii Prokofiev. Orchestra: Rostov State Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valentin Uryupin.
    • Malipiero, Ghedini & Casella: Works for Cello & Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 203.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in F major Op.3`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Pentatone.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scene and Waltz of the Snowflakes (The Nutcracker)

    Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

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