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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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Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in A major 'Military' (2 Polonaises Op.40)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in F Minor RV.97 'Winter'
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- SONY.
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David Briggs
Set Me as a Seal
Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Briggs: Hail, gladdening Light & Other Works.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Cello Concerto no.2 in D minor Op.119 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Lynn Harrell. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Dana Suesse
Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.- Jazz Nocturne.
- Naxos.
- 009.
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Franz Liszt
A Faust Symphony (3rd mvt 'Mephistopheles' - conclusion)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Liszt: A Faust Symphony.
- PHILIPS.
- 4.
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Franz Schubert
Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble.- Schubert: Octet: The Gaudier Ensemble.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody in G minor Op.79 no.2
Performer: Radu Lupu.- Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies Op.79, Klavierstucke Opp.117-119, Radu Lupu.
- Decca.
- 2.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata - 1676 no. 7 in C major
Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.- Biber: Sonatae Tam Aris, Quam Aulis Servientes.
- Helios.
- 7.
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, A Hero's Song: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Nelsons.
- BR Klassik.
- 3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Two-Part Invention in E major, BWV.777
Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.- J.S. Bach: Inventions and Partitas: Janine Jansen.
- Decca.
- 6.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio!, K 418
Singer: Margaret Price. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Lockhart.- RCA.
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Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis (Turandot - Scherzo)
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- DECCA.
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Francis Poulenc
Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music.
- Hyperion.
- 12.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor Op.23 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Warner.
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Manuel Cardoso
Tristis est anima mea (Lamentations for Maundy Thursday)
Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.- HYPERION.
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Leos Janáček
Katya Kabanova (Prelude)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- LSO LIVE.
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Charles Williams
Devil's Galop
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- British Light Music Classics vol.1.
- Hyperion.
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Arrigo Boito
Giunto sul passo estremo (Mefistofele)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Choir: Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Verismo Arias: Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano.
- Decca.
- 10.
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Richard Wagner
Eine Faust-Ouverture
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Wagner: Overtures and Preludes.
- Chandos.
- 5.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.8 'Symphony of a thousand' (Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis)
Singer: Susan Bullock. Singer: David Wilson‐Johnson. Singer: Erika Sunnegårdh. Singer: Johan Botha. Singer: John Relyea. Singer: Lilli Paasikivi. Singer: Nathalie Stutzmann. Choir: Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Berlin Phil Media GmbH.
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Edvard Grieg
Wedding day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Leif Ove Andsnes: Ballad for Edvard Grieg.
- EMI Classics.
- 8.
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William Walton
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)
Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Chandos.
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Serafino Razzi
O Vergin Santa
Singer: Déborah Cachet. Singer: Eva Zaïcik. Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.- ALPHA.
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Errollyn Wallen
Brukdown
Ensemble: Bone-afide.- DOYEN.
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Louis Vierne
Naiades (Fantasy Pieces, Suite no.4 Op.55)
Performer: Olivier Latry.- BNL.
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Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- Szell Conducts Wagner: Great Orchestral Highlights from the Ring of the Nibelung.
- Sony Classical.
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- Tue 20 Feb 2024 09:00鶹Լ Radio 3