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Celebrating classical greats

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

Mon 25 Mar 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major K.595 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Lyrical Waltz (Dances of the Dolls)

    Orchestrator: Tamás Batiashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Echoes of Time: Lisa Batiashvili/Symphonieorchester des Beyerischen Rundfunks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • James M. Stephenson

    Colors (Green)

    Performer: John Bruce Yeh. Performer: Alex Klein. Ensemble: Chicago Pro Musica.
    • Liquid Melancholy: Clarinet Music of James M Stephenson.
    • Cedille.
    • 203.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Introduction and polonaise in C major Op.3

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Themes and Variations.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Julie Cooper

    Dream (Contemplation Suite)

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Camilla Pay. Performer: Justin Pearson. Performer: Justin Pearson. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.
    • Julie Cooper: Continuum.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 501.
  • Gustav Holst

    Cotswold symphony H.47 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of Spring (6 Pieces Op.32)

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • The Maiden's Prayer: Piano Music from the 19th-Century Salon.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • A Second of Silence.
    • Ancalagon LLC.
    • 8.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    String Quartet in D minor (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.
    • Caprice.
  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau (Abdelazer)

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Henry Purcell

    Ground in C minor Z.T681

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • C.1300 - C.2000.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 10.
  • Gaspar Sanz

    Tarantella (Instrucción de musica sobre la guitara española)

    Performer: Xavier Díaz-Latorre. Performer: Pedro Estevan.
    • La Guitarra dels Lleons.
    • CANTUS.
    • 6.
  • Richard Strauss

    Duett-concertino AV.147 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Stepan Turnovsky. Orchestra: Academy of London. Conductor: Richard Stamp.
    • Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude to Capriccio – Copland: Clarinet Concerto, App.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Vagabond (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Les vêpres siciliennes (Act 3, Sc 2: Ballet, 'Spring')

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • Verdi: Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music, Vol. 3.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr Töchter (St Matthew Passion BWV.244)

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Choir: Vienna Boys' Choir. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Bach: St Matthew Passion: Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Dunhill

    The cloths of heaven

    Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Sholto Kynoch.
    • 鶹Լ recording.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • After Silence.
    • Voces8 Records.
  • Robert Schumann

    Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 26.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans.
    • ABC.
    • 2.
  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Valse nonchalante Op.110

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Recessit pastor noster

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.
    • CORO.
    • 13.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in F major Op.9`3

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Chaconne.
  • Emily Lim

    The Sun, Unafraid to Shine

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.
    • 鶹Լ recording.
  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's corner)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Childhood Tales.
    • Decca.
  • Jean-Baptiste Singelée

    Grand Quatour Concertant, Op.79

    Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • FLUX.
    • Chandos.
    • 001.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

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