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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 discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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.

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Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne Op.40 'In London Town'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • First Hand Records.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus: "Paix favorable, paix adorable"

    Singer: Françoise Masset. Singer: Jean-Louis Bindi. Choir: Chorus of Les Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Dardanus.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 47.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor, D 915

    Performer: Eric Lu.

  • George Frideric Handel

    My Heart is Inditing: Upon thy right hand; Kings shall be thy nursing fathers

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Handel: Coronation Anthems.
    • Coro.
    • 5.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Johann Strauss II Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
    • Apex.
    • 7.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    A VΓ€rmland Rhapsody Op.36

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)

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

  • George Butterworth

    Is My Team Ploughing? (Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad')

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
    • Divine Music – An English Songbook.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 20.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe, violin & strings (BWV.1060) in C minor - Adagio

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    La Tarantelle Fretillante from Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 5.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata

    Orchestrator: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Katherine Bryan. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • LINN.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Salon Polka in F sharp major, Op.7 No.1

    Performer: Sir AndrΓ‘s Schiff.
    • TELDEC.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • Sir Thomas Beecham: The French Collection.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

  • William Boyce

    The King Shall Rejoice

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Coronation Anthems: Academy of Ancient Music/New College Choir/Higginbottom.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Dana Hanchard. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€.
    • BIS.

  • Henry Purcell

    A New Irish Tune; A New Scotch Tune

    Performer: Grigory Sokolov.
    • Purcell & Mozart (Live).
    • DG.
    • 6-7.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Moscow-Cheryomushki Suite (Dances)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: Cheryomushki; The Bolt; etc.
    • Decca.

  • Owain Park

    Prière pour Marie

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • NAIVE.

  • Erik Satie

    GymnopΓ©die No 2 in C major

    Performer: Pascal RogΓ©.
    • Satie: 3 Gymnopedies & Other Piano Works; Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto, Op.14

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • DECCA.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    • MCA Records.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: JΓ’ms Coleman.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S 231

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11.

  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis (Op.24), no.5; SchΓΆne Wiege meiner Leiden

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Richard Strauss

    Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, TrV 233.
    • Orfeo.
    • 2.

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