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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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 2 Oct 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin, Op 15 No 2, arr for string quartet

    Music Arranger: Brodsky Quartet. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Beethoven - 9 Symphonies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    Fileuse (Etudes de Concert - Bk.1 Op.35)

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • Steinway & Sons.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • Philips.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    Intermezzo from I gioielli della Madonna

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Opear Overtures & Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.5 in F minor BWV.1056

    Music Arranger: Avi Avital. Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Performer: Shalev Ad-El. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Ira Givol.
    • Avi Avital Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • James Newton Howard

    Flying (Peter Pan)

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41 "Jupiter".
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Jamie W. Hall

    O nata lux

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • James Oswald

    A Sonata of Scots Tunes: Polwart on the Green [Andante]

    Performer: Benjamin Perrot. Performer: Florence Bolton. Ensemble: La RΓͺveuse.
    • London circa 1740: Handel's musicians.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 20.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in F minor, D.935 no.4

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Schubert: Impromptus Op.90 and Op.142.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 8.
  • Oskar Nedbal

    Valse triste

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: VΓ‘clav Neumann.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square (3 Dance Episodes from On the Town)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 603.
  • Trad.

    The Fidgety Bairn

    Performer: John Newmark. Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Hugh Roberton. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition - The Complete Decca Recordings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Edward Elgar

    Slumber Scene (The Wand of Youth Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Capriccio.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (no.2)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen (Act 2: Entr'acte)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Collectors' Edition 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 020.
  • Robert B. Sherman

    Stay Awake

    Composer: Richard M. Sherman. Lyricist: Robert B. Sherman. Lyricist: Richard M. Sherman. Singer: Julie Andrews.
    • Mary Poppins (Originalnyi Saundtrek).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Prelude & Alla Hornpipe (Water Music Suite in F, HWV.348)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Handel: Water Music, Music For The Royal Fireworks.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 001.
  • Anna Meredith

    Bubble Gun

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Jack Ross. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Music Arranger: Paul Drayton. Performer: Elodie Chousmer-Howelles. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Paul Jeanjean

    Clair matin

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano: Bliss/Quentin.
    • EMI.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24: LSO & Chorus/Davis.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat, Op.27 no.2

    Performer: Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonatas 2 & 3 etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 07.
  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: I. Scherzo (Transcr. Rachmaninof

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    i thank you God for this most amazing day

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in E flat major, K 614 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Heinz-Otto Graf. Ensemble: Heutling Quartet.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Symphony no.1 in A major 'Symphonie Italienne' (Florence)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • d'Indy: PoΓ¨me des Rivages & Symphony No. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Oct 2024 09:30

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