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A feast of great music

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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 8 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Karita Mattila. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No.5.
    • Phillips.
    • 8.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Juba)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 9.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53 for wind ensemble

    Performer: Alex Jakeman. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Performer: Alyson Frazier. Performer: Elise Campbell. Performer: Mark van de Wiel. Performer: Jonathan Parkin. Performer: Graham Hobbs.
    • Winds of Change.
    • Three Worlds Records.
  • Franz von Suppè

    Poet and Peasant (overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Suppé: Overtures and Marches.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Reena Esmail

    This Love Between Us "Prayers for Unity" (5th mvt)

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: Yale Schola Cantorum. Conductor: David Hill.
    • New England Choirworks.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.
  • Sally Whitwell

    Astral Dance (Starwalker)

    Performer: Matt Withers. Performer: Sally Whitwell.
    • Women of Note Vol. 6.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 5 No. 1: III. Rondeau

    Conductor: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Traditional Spiritual

    It's me, O Lord

    Performer: Vivian Taylor. Music Arranger: Betty Jackson King. Singer: Robert Honeysucker.
    • Watch and Pray. Spirituals and Art Songs by African-American Women Composers.
    • KOCH.
    • 018.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: Studio 2 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • British Light Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Selig sind die Toten (A German Requiem)

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart. Choir: North German Radio Choir. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Olga Pashchenko. Ensemble: Il Gardellino.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 23.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.23`3)

    Choir: Holst Singers. Performer: Thelma Owen. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Britten: Choral Dances, Bliss Pastoral, Holst Rig Veda: Holst Singers & Orch/Dav.
    • Helios.
    • 2.
  • Philip Glass

    Evening Song (Satyagraha)

    Singer: Douglas Perry. Orchestra: New York City Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Keene.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral" (4th mvt)

    Singer: June Anderson. Singer: Sarah Walker. Singer: Klaus Konig. Singer: Jan‐Hendrik Rootering. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Choir: Berlin Radio Chorus, Members. Choir: Kinderchor des Philharmonischen Chores Dresden. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Ensemble: Members of the Kirov Orchestra, Leningrad. Ensemble: Members Of The London Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: Members Of The New York Philharmonic. Ensemble: Members of the Orchestre de Paris.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No.9 (Ode To Freedom - Bernstein in Berlin).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 1 (Aragonaise)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Bizet - L'Arlesienne: Suites; Carmen: Suites.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Victor Bendix

    Symphony No. 1 in C major "Ascension" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Joachim Gustafsson.
    • Bendix: Symphonies 1 & 3.
    • Dacapo.
    • 1.
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    Scarborough Fair

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Music Arranger: Harry Baker. Orchestra: Fantasia Orchestra. Conductor: Tom Fetherstonhaugh.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Boutique Fantasque

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Respighi: La Boutique fantasque, La pentola magica & Prelude and Fugue in D.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • André Messager

    Solo de concours

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • La clarinette parisienne.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 83 in G minor 'The Hen' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.113

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The Neighbour's Dance, Seguidillas (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Falla: El sombrero de tres picos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The miller's dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Singer: Carmen Romeu. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Falla: El sombrero de tres picos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 106.

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  • Thu 8 Aug 2024 09:30

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