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The very best of classical music

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 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 20 Mar 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Stephan Koncz

    A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Do You Hear Us In Heaven

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Kevin Puts

    Marimba concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ji Su Jung. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Kevin Puts: Marimba Concerto, The City & Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight".
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Im Abendrot D.799

    Music Arranger: Not credited. Performer: Aaron Pilsan. Performer: Kian Soltani. Performer: Aaron Pilsan.
    • Schubert: Im Abendrot, D. 799 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments).
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven 路 Tchaikovsky 路 Schmidt 路 Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 304.
  • George Gershwin

    They Can't Take That Away from Me; Graceful and Elegant

    Music Arranger: Tedd Firth. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Gershwin Rhapsody.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Shai Wosner. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Florence Price

    Violin Concerto no.1 in D Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Partita no.4 in D major BWV.828 (Ouverture)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sir猫nes (Nocturnes)

    Choir: Women's Voices of the Collegium Musicum Amstelodamense. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B Minor RV.580

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor, RV 580 (Adapt. for 4 Mandolins, Strings and Contin.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long Day Closes

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Romance Du Soir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in E flat major Op.38 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Jackie Oates

    Waiting for the Lark

    Singer: Jackie Oates.
    • ECC.
  • Robert Schumann

    Abendlied Op.85 no.12

    Music Arranger: Oskar Merikanto. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Jean鈥怣arie Leclair

    Violin Concerto in C major, Op 7 No 3 (3rd mvt, Allegro assai)

    Performer: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • J. M. Leclair, Violin Concertos.
    • Glossa.
    • 003.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Jonathan Tetelman. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • The Great Puccini.
    • DG.
    • 8.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Souvenir d'Amerique, Variations on "Yankee Doodle", Op. 17

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Barber, Bruch.
    • Universal Music Ltd..
    • 8.
  • William Byrd

    The Bells

    Performer: Michele Pasotti. Performer: Flora Papadopoulos. Ensemble: Il Caleidoscopio Ensemble.
    • Lawes: New Old Albion.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 13.
  • Marie Ja毛ll

    Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: C茅lia Oneto Bensaid. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Debora Waldman.
    • Marie Ja毛ll: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor: II. Adagio.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 101.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the Trumpet (Come Ye Sons of Art)

    Music Arranger: Allen Ostrander. Performer: Hannes L盲ubin. Performer: Wolfgang L盲ubin. Performer: Bernhard L盲ubin. Performer: Simon Preston.
    • L盲ubin / Preston - Awake the trumpets lofty sound.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G minor K. 478; 3. Rondo (finale)

    Performer: Federico Colli. Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Laura van der Heijden.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.3 in C major Op.52 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

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