A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
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.
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
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf (The Procession to the Zoo)
Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- RCA.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23
Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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William Cornysh
A Robyn, gentyl Robyn
Choir: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.- Metronome.
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Jeanâ€Philippe Rameau
Les Boreades: Overture
Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.- ERATO.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
String Quartet No 2 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.- Korngold: The String Quartets.
- Chandos.
- 6.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fat Knight (Finale)
Orchestrator: Martin Yates. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.- Dutton.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major
Performer: Alessio Bax. Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra.- Forgotten Dances.
- Signum Classics.
- 19.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Czech Suite (5th mvt)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.- Dvorak: American Suite, Czech Suite; Overtures and Tone Poems.
- Warner Classics.
- 5.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor for 2 violins and cello RV.578
Performer: Amandine Beyer. Performer: Alba Roca. Performer: Marco Ceccato. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.- Vivaldi: Festival de Sable.
- ZIG ZAG TERRITOIRES.
- 1-4.
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Jonathan Dove
Airport Scenes (Departures)
Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.- Orchid Classics.
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James MacMillan
Mouth of the Dumb (Os mutorum)
Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Singer: Andrew Swait. Singer: Samantha Harris.- NMC.
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Gabriela Montero
Improvisation no.3
Performer: Gabriela Montero.- ORCHID.
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Niccolò Paganini
Moto perpetuo
Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Director: Donald Hunsberger.- CBS.
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Benjamin Britten
Young Apollo, Op.16
Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.- HYPERION.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.1 in G minor, Op.13 'Winter Daydreams' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- LPO.
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Gabriel Fauré
Sicilienne, Op 78
Performer: Andrei Ioniţă. Performer: Lilit Grigoryan. -
Domenico Zipoli
Toccata (Sonate d'intavolatura, Op 1 No 15)
Performer: James Johnstone.- Bolivian Baroque, Vol. 3: Music from the Missions and La Plata.
- Channel Classics.
- 5.
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William Walton
Henry V Suite: The Death of Falstaff
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius, Zukerman, Black, ECO, Barneboim.
- Deustche Grammophon.
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Edward Elgar
Falstaff. IV. The repudiation of Falstaff, and his death
Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Tutto nel mondo è burla (Falstaff)
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Singer: Daniil Shtoda. Singer: Enrico Facini. Singer: Anthony Mee. Singer: Anatoly Kocherga. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: Dorothea Röschmann. Singer: Larissa Diadkova. Singer: Stella Doufexis. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.81 in G major (1st mvt)
Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.- Haydn: Arie per un'amante.
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- 1.
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Henry Purcell
King Arthur Z.628 (Act 5 Chaconne)
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- WINGED LION.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
Cinnamon Grove (Allegretto)
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- My Cup Runneth Over.
- NAVONA.
- 19.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Badinérie)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Philippe Racine. Director: Simon Preston.- Novalis.
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Gustav Holst
Ave Maria
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- HYPERION.
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Étienne Méhul
Symphony No 1 in G minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Méhul : Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 - Apex.
- ERATO.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A major K.331)
Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Yuja Wang.- DG.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D
Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- DG.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.- Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
- Warner Classics.
- 3.
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la for 4 voices
Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.- Reformation: Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pi.
- Hyperion.
- 14.
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Ernest Chausson
Le Colibri, Op.2 no.7
Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.- Naive.
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Anthony Newman
Fansye
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.- Queen Mary's Big Belly.
- Signum Classics.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 9 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Live).
- BR-Klassik.
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- Wed 4 Sep 2024 09:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3