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Celebrating classical greats

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, 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

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Wed 17 Apr 2024 09:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to come (March)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Movies.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Classical Hits: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Jubilate Deo omnis terra Γ  8

    Choir: Taverner Consort. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Music of the Sistine Chapel.
    • HMV CLASSICS.
    • 004.

  • Claude Debussy

    Par les rues et par les chemins (Iberia - 2nd mvt of Images)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Images, Jeux, La Plus que Lente.
    • SFS media.
    • 2.

  • William Byrd

    Fantasia Γ  5 'Two in One'

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Virgin.

  • Leos JanÑček

    On an Overgrown Path, Bk.1 (The Little Owl has not Flown)

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 12.

  • GraΕΌyna Bacewicz

    Folk Sketches

    Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Krenz.
    • Bacewicz: Polish Radio SO/Krenz.
    • ACCORD.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio in C major for lute, violin and continuo, RV 82

    Performer: Paul O’Dette. Performer: Roy Goodman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments.
    • HYPERION.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Olivier Doise. Performer: Laurent Lefèvre.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Italienisches Liederbuch: no.19 Wohl kenn' ich Euren Stand

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Dawn Upshaw.
    • Hugo Wolf - The Anniversary Edition.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 21.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Italienisches Liederbuch: no.29 Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Dawn Upshaw.
    • Hugo Wolf - The Anniversary Edition.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 25.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite, Op 22)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Sibelius Encore!: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Gary Cooper.
    • Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
    • ASV Digital.
    • 9-10.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Edward Elgar

    Owls, Op 53, No 4

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Choral Songs: London Symphony Chorus/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.

  • John Williams

    Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Fitzpatrick.
    • Silva Screen.

  • Thomas Vautor

    Sweet Suffolk Owl

    Ensemble: Gesualdo Consort. Conductor: Gerald Place.
    • Vautor: Sing on Sister - Songs of Divers Airs and Natures.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 11.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Ballet and Final Tableau)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Magnificat, C75

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies: Ex Cathedra/Concerto Palatino/Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Dag WirΓ©n

    Concert overture no.2 Op.16

    Orchestra: NorrkΓΆpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Dag Wiren, Symphonies 2 & 3, Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.897, 'Notturno'

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 84 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Haydn: Paris Symphonies Nos. 82, 83 & 84: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands together

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion

    Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.
    • Dancing with Piazzolla.
    • Untuned Sky Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.1 in G minor "Winter Dreams" Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Danza (Les soirΓ©es musicales)

    Performer: Andrea Noferini. Performer: Denis Zardi. Music Arranger: Unknown.
    • Rossini for Cello.
    • Tactus.
    • 401.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Tallis Canon

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto Op.40`2

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Peter Graeme. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Holst: Brook Green Suite, Lyric Movement, Fugal Concerto: ECO, Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Apr 2024 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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