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A feast of great music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

Fri 23 Feb 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.
  • John Ireland

    Columbine

    Performer: John Lenehan.
    • IRELAND, J.: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Lenehan) - Sarnia / London Pieces / In those.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Clarinet Concerto No 3 (final mvts)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Concerto KΓΆln.
    • Sony.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture, Op 62

    Orchestra: Orchestre RΓ©volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.
  • Carl Engel

    Sea-Shell (Arr. E. Zimbalist for Violin & Piano)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster. Music Arranger: Efrem Zimbalist.
    • Estrellita.
    • BIS.
    • 1001.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Op.3

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, D.550

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Liszt: Schubert Song Transcriptions: Jorge Bolet.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • EΜ„riks Ešenvalds

    Rivers of Light

    Choir: Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West. Conductor: Richard Nance.
    • There Will Come Soft Rains.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 04.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances arr for brass band (No 1)

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • The Malcolm Arnold Edition: Music for Brass.
    • Decca.
    • 23.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Symphony no.2 in G minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 & Ett drΓΆmspel.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Piano Quartet no.1 in C minor Op.15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Ensemble: Hermitage String Trio.
    • Chandos.
  • °Υ°ωΓ€»ε

    Waulking Song (Arr. for Vocal Ensemble by Pauline Langlois de Swarte)

    Music Arranger: Pauline Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les ItinΓ©rantes. Director: Thierry Gomar.
    • Origines.
    • Mirare.
    • 103.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies: Malsbury, LMP, Shelley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    "The Harmonious Blacksmith"

    • Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 & 6 [Expanded Edition].
    • Sony Classical/Legacy.
    • 26.
  • Arnold Bax

    4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Bax: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures Op.37 (Where Corals Lie)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Amygdalaki tsakisa

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Katerina Papadopoulou. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Mediterraneo.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri BΓΌsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy: Night in Granada: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
    • Cala.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 1 (Op.21) in C major, 3rd movement; Menuetto

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Lavinia Meijer

    Etudes, No. 20

    • The Glass Effect: Sony Classical 88985351432.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Hubert Parry

    Bridal March of the Birds (The Birds)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo in A minor Op.81`2

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn - The Complete String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐MΓΆst.
    • J. Strauss II: Walzes & Overtures: Welser-Most.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

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  • Fri 23 Feb 2024 09:00

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