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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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Richard Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- SONY CLASSICS.
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William Walton
'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue
Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Hyperion.
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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.
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Ernest Walker
Soft Music
Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.- Music of the Spheres.
- Signum Classics.
- 13.
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Leó Weiner
Serenade for small orchestra, Op 3 (4th mvt)
Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.- Solti - Bartók.
- DECCA.
- 21.
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Robert Keane
The Tiger Tango (Save the Animals Suite)
Performer: Piers Lane.- Hyperion.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- Pavarotti: Verdi.
- Decca.
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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.
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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.
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William Grant Still
Can't You Line 'Em
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.- Still: Orchestral Works.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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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.
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Tommaso Giordani
Caro Mio Ben
Performer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: György Fischer.- DECCA.
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Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (4th mvt)
Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.- Solti - Bartók.
- DECCA.
- 15.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Introduction and Royal March of the Lion (Carnival of the Animals)
Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- Philips.
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Joseph Haydn
The Creation: Straight Opening Her Fertile Womb
Singer: Neal Davies. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Haydn: The Creation.
- ARCHIV.
- 21.
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John Tavener
The Tyger
Choir: The Choir of Temple Church. Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- The John Tavener Collection.
- Decca.
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Vincent Youmans
Tea for Two
Music Arranger: Art Tatum. Performer: Art Tatum.- Black Lion Records.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)
Composer: Deryck Cooke. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- 150th Anniversary Box - Mahler.
- Warner Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in F major K.332 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
- Philips.
- 3.
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Franz Schubert
Lacrimosa son io
Choir: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.- Schubert, Schumann, Brahms & Wagner: Rheinmädchen.
- harmonia mundi.
- 10.
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Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite: Overture; Serenata; Scherzino
Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 106 'Actus Tragicus': Sonatina
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
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Hans Rott
Symphony no.1 in E major (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.- RCA.
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Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
²岵ä
Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté. Conductor: Jean-François Verdier.- ALPHA.
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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.
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Fritz Kreisler
Liebesleid - old Viennese dance no.2
Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.- Belle Epoque.
- DG.
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Herbert Murrill
Carillon
Performer: Simon Preston.- Grandes Toccatas For Organ.
- EMI Classics.
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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.
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- Fri 26 Apr 2024 09:30鶹Լ Radio 3