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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

Fri 26 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • SONY CLASSICS.
  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduttione teatrale in D major, Op 4 No 1

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Locatelli: Introduttioni Teatrali - Chamber Music.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Ernest Walker

    Soft Music

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.
  • Leó Weiner

    Serenade for small orchestra, Op 3 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Solti - Bartók.
    • DECCA.
    • 21.
  • Robert Keane

    The Tiger Tango (Save the Animals Suite)

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Hyperion.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Pavarotti: Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Ensemble: Leopold String Trio.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets: Marc-Andre Hamelin, Leopold String Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Lukas Foss

    Composer's Holiday (3 American Pieces)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The American Album: Itzhak Perlman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • William Grant Still

    Can't You Line 'Em

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite: Ouverture miniature

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nicolas Economou. Music Arranger: Nicolas Economou.
    • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; The Nutcracker Suite.
    • DG.
    • 4.
  • Tommaso Giordani

    Caro Mio Ben

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: György Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Solti - Bartók.
    • DECCA.
    • 15.
  • Pierre de Manchicourt

    Regina caeli

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: El León de Oro. Conductor: Marco Antonio García de Paz.
    • La Hèle: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & Works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 12 No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4.
    • BIS.
    • 303.
  • Richard Addinsell

    Warsaw Concerto

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, 鶹ԼSO, Hugh Wolff.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Introduction and Royal March of the Lion (Carnival of the Animals)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Philips.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation: Straight Opening Her Fertile Womb

    Singer: Neal Davies. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Creation.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 21.
  • John Tavener

    The Tyger

    Choir: The Choir of Temple Church. Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • The John Tavener Collection.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tea for Two

    Music Arranger: Art Tatum. Performer: Art Tatum.
    • Black Lion Records.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)

    Composer: Deryck Cooke. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 150th Anniversary Box - Mahler.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F major K.332 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Lacrimosa son io

    Choir: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Schubert, Schumann, Brahms & Wagner: Rheinmädchen.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Overture; Serenata; Scherzino

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata, BWV 106 'Actus Tragicus': Sonatina

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Hans Rott

    Symphony no.1 in E major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    ²岵ä

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté. Conductor: Jean-François Verdier.
    • ALPHA.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    3 Morceaux: No 3 Humoresque

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 11.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid - old Viennese dance no.2

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.
    • Belle Epoque.
    • DG.
  • Herbert Murrill

    Carillon

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Grandes Toccatas For Organ.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.
  • Constant Lambert

    The Rio Grande

    Singer: Sally Burgess. Performer: Jack Gibbons. Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament; The Rio Grande.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 26 Apr 2024 09:30

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