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The very best of classical 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.

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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  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • The Best ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 5 in F major, Op 24, 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Christian Ferras. Performer: Pierre Barbizet.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ale Carr

    Stormpolskan

    Performer: Nikolaj Busk. Performer: Ale Carr. Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 3.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Conduisez-moi vers celui que j'adore (Robinson CrusoΓ©)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.
    • Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
    • Erato.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Aria in Ciacona

    Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Timeless - Music by Merula and Glass.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Peter Erasmus Lange-MΓΌller

    Viking Blood (Overture)

    Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Moshe Atzmon.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Fabio Di CΓ sola. Orchestra: Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • W A Mozart, Clarinet Concerto: Fabio di Casola/Musikkollegium Winterthur/Boyd.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.

  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Night of the Flying Horses (3 Songs)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Julian Azkoul.
    • Renewal.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major BWV.1053 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sir AndrΓ‘s Schiff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Director: Sir AndrΓ‘s Schiff.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Peter Best

    Crocodile Dundee (Opening Titles)

    Conductor: Peter Best.
    • Crocodile Dundee (Original Motion Picture Score).
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides Op.73

    Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Fandango (Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D major G.448)

    Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini: Quintets: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Scherzino

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Performer: Elena Kats‐Chernin.
    • The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 45.

  • Mario Nascimbene

    Ragnar Returns (from "The Vikings")

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warriors Of The Silver Screen.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 16.

  • Moondog

    Viking I

    Ensemble: Moondog. Performer: Louis Thomas Hardin.
    • Moondog in Europe.
    • Koff.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    As Torrents in Summer (Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf)

    Choir: Cambridge University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • NAXOS.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die WalkΓΌre)

    Orchestra: SimΓ³n BolΓ­var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • DG.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat (4th mvt)

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies, Volume 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Celestial Bird

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux de vagues (La mer)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Root (The Evergreen)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Caroline Shaw: Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 cellos in G minor, RV 531

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi X2Β².
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    My ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔland - Overture Op.62

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Chandos.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall. Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester.
    • VIRGIN.

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