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Classical coffee break

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.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 1 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon, Op 24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Kabalevsky: Piano concerto etc: Kathryn Stott/ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • York Bowen

    3 Serious dances Op.51 (no.2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Concerto in C major, RV451

    Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • ±·΄‘Ï³Υ·‘.
  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madam Butterfly; Humming Chorus

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Madama Butterfly.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Joby Talbot

    April: The First Day of Summer (Once Around the Sun)

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Rob Farrar. Performer: Manon Morris.
    • SONY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in D major K.285 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Hariolf Schlichtig. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Washerwoman Set

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Playhouse Sessions.
    • Rubicon.
  • Gustav Holst

    March (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Brass From The Masters Vol. 2:.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
    • Hyperion.
    • 27.
  • Franz Berwald

    Symphonic Poem 'Wettlauf'

    Orchestra: GΓ€vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Berwald: Tone Poems: Gavle Symphony Orchestra/Sakari.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in E flat major, Op 119, No 4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms: Handel Variations op.24 etc.: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Percy Grainger

    Arrival Platform Humlet (In a Nutshell: Suite)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira No 5

    Singer: Victoria de los Ángeles. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Heitor Villa‐Lobos.
    • Alto.
  • Ennio Morricone

    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Main Title/Ecstasy of Gold

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Music From The Films Of Clint Eastwood.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Meredith Monk

    Ellis Island for two pianos

    Performer: Lara Downes. Performer: Simone Dinnerstein.
    • Holes in the Sky.
    • Masterworks.
    • 5.
  • Γ‰douard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud CapuΓ§on. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi.
    • ERATO.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Folle Γ¨ ben che si crede

    Singer: Magdalena KoΕΎenΓ‘. Ensemble: Private Musicke. Conductor: Pierre Pitzl.
    • Magdalena Kozena: Lettere Amorose. Private Musicke/Pitzl.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 17.
  • Gottfried Finger

    A Ground in D Minor

    Ensemble: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Conductor: Maurice Steger.
    • Mr Handel's Dinner.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 118.
  • Adam Schoenberg

    Picture Studies (Pigeons in Flight)

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 310.
  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op.17

    Orchestrator: SΓΈren Barfoed. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto: Sol Gambetta.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.21 in C major 'Waldstein' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • ONYX.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Easter Cantata - opening chorus

    Choir: Rheinische Kantorei. Orchestra: Das Kleine Konzert. Conductor: Hermann Max.
    • cpo.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony Variations"

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les biches, FP 36 (Version for Piano): II. Rondeau

    Performer: Anthony Goldstone.
    • The Piano at the Ballet, Vol. 2.
    • Divine Art.
    • 101.
  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost (3 Ghost Rags)

    Ensemble: Aeolus Quartet.
    • Longhorn Music.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er You Walk (Semele) arr for Trumpet and Piano

    Performer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. Performer: Anna Szalucka.
    • Handel for Trumpet.
    • Linn Records.
    • 13.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni Γ  12

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • HYPERION.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Symphony in G major Op.11`1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Tafelmusik.
  • Sir George Dyson

    Overture - At the Tabard Inn (The Canterbury Pilgrims)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

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