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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.

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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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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • The Best 鶹Լ Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 6.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Amy Beach

    Scottish Legend, Op.54`1

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach - Piano Music Volume 2.
    • Guild.
    • 20.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97 (Rhenish) - 2nd mvt

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • R. Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 302.
  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Lane.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Fanfare.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Allegro de concert Op.46

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G Op.3`3

    Ensemble: Combattimento. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Cant voi l'aube

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Brooklyn Rider.
    • Ïշ.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Debussy, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 118.
  • Max Bruch

    Romanian Melody and Scherzo for Clarinet, Viola & String Orchestra, Op. 83; ii

    Performer: Dimitri Ashkenazy. Performer: Anton Kholodenko. Orchestra: Baltic Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mats Liljefors.
    • Weber & Bruch: Works for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra.
    • Paladino Music.
    • 401.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in A Minor, No.24, BWV 869

    Performer: Ewa Pobłocka.
    • JS Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 47.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony in D minor, 'Youth'

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony no.1 etc: 鶹Լ Philharmonic/Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Caprice fantastique

    Music Arranger: Rózsika Révay. Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: no.2 Gnomus

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlkönig D.328

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haeifliger.
    • Schubert Lieder Volume 7: Erlkönig.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Héctor Ulises Passarella. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bacalov: Misa Tango: Domingo, Martinez, Bacalov, Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Phaëton Op.39

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Saint-Seans: Orchestral Works: Neemi Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Tous les matins du monde: Original soundtrack.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    In the black dismal dungeon of despair

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Allan Clayton. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Martin Sieghart.
    • Wien, Weib Und Gesang.
    • ARTE NOVA.
    • 7.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Sinfonia Drammatica

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS: BIS-2210.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt, Op 23)

    Singer: Marita Kvarving Sølberg. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Reflets

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major Op.40 no.1 'Military'

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.

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