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
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
- Decca.
- 19.
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Giuseppe Verdi
The Force of Destiny (Overture)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Maurice Ravel
La parade
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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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.
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Caroline Shaw
And the swallow
Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.- ...and....
- Naxos.
- 101.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
- Decca.
- 3.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Francis Poulenc
Improvisation No 8 in A minor
Performer: Lucille Chung.- Stephen Hough's French Album.
- hyperion.
- 012.
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Heitor Villaâ€Lobos
Bachiana brasileira no. 5 (Aria)
Performer: Elsa Dreisig. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.- Bach Inspirations.
- Warner.
- 12.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Chandos.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D Minor Kk.1
Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.- SONY.
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Filipe de Magalhães
Exsurge, quare obdormis Domine?
Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: LuÃs Toscano.- Magalhães: Missa Veni Domine & Missa Vere Dominus est.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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William Walton
Orb and Sceptre - coronation march
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
- Decca.
- 18.
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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.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)
Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- McCreesh: Silence & Music.
- Signum Classics.
- 1.
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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.
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Camille Saintâ€Saëns
Le rossignol et la rose
Singer: Rita Streich. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kurt Gaebel.- DG.
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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.
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Igor Stravinsky
Danse russe (3 Movements from Petrushka)
Performer: Yuja Wang.- DG.
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Andrzej Panufnik
Concerto Festivo (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrzej Panufnik.- UNICORN-KANCHANA.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
Dance of desire (Enchantment, No 3)
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- My Cup Runneth Over.
- NAVONA.
- 13.
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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.
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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.
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Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.- Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 13.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No 7 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Bruckner: The Symphonies.
- DECCA.
- 1.
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Henry Purcell
Sonata - 1683 no.8 in G major Z.797
Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.- LINN.
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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.
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Horacio Salgán
A Don AgustÃn Bardi
Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.- Dancing with Piazzolla.
- Untuned Sky Ltd.
- 6.
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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.
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Franz Ries
La Capricciosa
Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: José Gallardo.- Homage.
- WARNER.
- 1.
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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.
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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.
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