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Your perfect classical playlist

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

Fri 19 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 19.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Force of Destiny (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La parade

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto-Suite in F major, TWV.54:F1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Tempesta di Mare. Director: Gwyn Roberts. Director: Richard Stone.
    • Telemann: The Concerti-En-Suite.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Louis Vierne

    Organ Symphony no.1 in D minor Op.14 (6th mvt)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Romantic Organ Music, Vol. 2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A Major Op.20 no.6 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 12.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Violin Concerto in D (Capriccio)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Braham / Stravinsky - Violin Concertos - Hilary Hahn.
    • Sony.
    • 7.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Improvisation No 8 in A minor

    Performer: Lucille Chung.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 012.
  • Heitor Villaâ€Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira no. 5 (Aria)

    Performer: Elsa Dreisig. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Bach Inspirations.
    • Warner.
    • 12.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D Minor Kk.1

    Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • SONY.
  • Filipe de Magalhães

    Exsurge, quare obdormis Domine?

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Magalhães: Missa Veni Domine & Missa Vere Dominus est.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Orb and Sceptre - coronation march

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
    • Decca.
    • 18.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Anton Coppola.
    • Angela Gheorghiu - My Puccini.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • McCreesh: Silence & Music.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Gulliver Suite for two violins: Intrada

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Caroline Balding.
    • Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Violin Solo: Gulliver Suite for Two Violins.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Le rossignol et la rose

    Singer: Rita Streich. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kurt Gaebel.
    • DG.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Spring Symphony, Part I (excerpt)

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Singer: Alice Coote. Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Choir: Tiffin Children's Choir. Choir: Tiffin Boys’ Choir. Choir: Tiffin Girls’ Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Danse russe (3 Movements from Petrushka)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Concerto Festivo (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrzej Panufnik.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Dance of desire (Enchantment, No 3)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 13.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelléas and Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Sibelius: Luonnotar, Tapiola, Spring Song, Rakastava & Suite from Pelléas oc.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49: I. Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Raphael Alpermann.
    • Bach: Dialogkantaten, BWV 32, 49 & 57.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 115.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 7 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bruckner: The Symphonies.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata - 1683 no.8 in G major Z.797

    Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.
    • LINN.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor Op.85 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Elgar, Cello Concerto; Carter; Bruch.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.
  • Horacio Salgán

    A Don Agustín Bardi

    Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.
    • Dancing with Piazzolla.
    • Untuned Sky Ltd.
    • 6.
  • Claude Debussy

    Recueillement (Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire)

    Music Arranger: John Adams. Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Ries

    La Capricciosa

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: José Gallardo.
    • Homage.
    • WARNER.
    • 1.
  • Domenico Pellegrini

    Chiaccona in parte variate alla vera spagnuola (Chaconne in the true Spanish style)

    Performer: Christoph Sommer. Performer: Karl Nyhlin. Performer: Cecilia Knudtsen. Performer: Nora Thiele.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Concerto no. 2 in B flat major Op.83 for piano ...: 4th mvt; Allegretto grazioso

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr.2, Op.83 - Klavierstücke, Op.76.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 Apr 2024 09:30

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