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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

Tue 20 Feb 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major 'Military' (2 Polonaises Op.40)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F Minor RV.97 'Winter'

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • SONY.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Franz Liszt

    A Faust Symphony (3rd mvt 'Mephistopheles' - conclusion)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Liszt: A Faust Symphony.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Schubert: Octet: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio!, K 418

    Singer: Margaret Price. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Lockhart.
    • RCA.
  • Paul Hindemith

    Symphonic Metamorphosis (Turandot - Scherzo)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • 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.
  • Manuel Cardoso

    Tristis est anima mea (Lamentations for Maundy Thursday)

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • HYPERION.
  • Leos Janáček

    Katya Kabanova (Prelude)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • Richard Wagner

    Eine Faust-Ouverture

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Wagner: Overtures and Preludes.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • William Walton

    Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Serafino Razzi

    O Vergin Santa

    Singer: Déborah Cachet. Singer: Eva Zaïcik. Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.
    • ALPHA.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Brukdown

    Ensemble: Bone-afide.
    • DOYEN.
  • Louis Vierne

    Naiades (Fantasy Pieces, Suite no.4 Op.55)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • BNL.
  • 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.
    • 5.

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