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Relax into the day with classical

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

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

Tue 16 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • The Best 鶹Լ Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 13.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    Contre qui, rose (Les chansons des roses)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs etc: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Nimbus.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jan Waterfield. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • César Franck

    Les Eolides M.43

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Franck: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd-Girl's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Music Arranger: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • The Romantic Trombone.
    • Bis.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony no.10 in B minor

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn: Streichersinfonien Nr.8, 9, 10: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, Op 87 No 5

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm (Girl Crazy Suite)

    Music Arranger: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestrator: Bill Elliott. Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • ALPHA.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no.2 in F major Op.51

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Orfeo.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts No 3 in F major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Etude in B flat minor Op. 8 no.11

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • BRIDGE.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Étude in A flat, "Aeolian Harp"

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.
  • Max Steiner

    Gone with the Wind (Tara's Theme)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Cinema Classics conducted by Carl Davis.
    • Royal Philharmonic.
    • 9.
  • Trad.

    Cachua Serranita (Instrumental)

    Orchestra: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Bailar Cantando.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 20.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Traditional English

    Blow the wind southerly

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.
    • Kathleen Ferrier - Vol.8: Blow the Wind Southerly.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Magic Flute Dances; I. Light (Tentative, getting faster and bolder)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: 鶹Լ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-10718.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les trois mains (Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Rameau: Noubelles Suites: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • Jacques Loussier Trio - Bach: The Brandenburgs.
    • Telarc.
    • 7-9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Linn.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Danse païenne Op.158

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

    La cumparsita

    Performer: Miloš Milivojević. Performer: David Gordon. Performer: David Juritz. Performer: Craig Ogden. Performer: Richard Pryce. Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.
    • Dancing with Piazzolla.
    • Untuned Sky Ltd.
    • 15.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Beethove/Britten: Violin Concertos: Janine Jansen/Paavo Jarvi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Music Arranger: Christian Forshaw. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Claude Debussy

    Première Suite d'Orchestre, L. 50a: IV. Cortège et Bacchanale - Live

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

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