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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.

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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Oct 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)

    Music Arranger: Ruben Asatryan. Ensemble: Z.E.N. Trio.
    • Burning through the cold.
    • DG.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • William Byrd

    Salve regina (Gradualia 1605)

    Ensemble: The Cardinall’s Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • HYPERION.
  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Vocalise for flute, clarinet and harp

    Ensemble: Korros Ensemble.
    • Convivium.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Willow Song

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook.
    • BIS.
    • 35.
  • Alfredo Casella

    Scarlattiana, Op.44 (Minuetto)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Casella: Symphony No.2 / Scarlattiana - Roscoe/ 鶹Լ Phil./ Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 1 in B minor for violin, BWV 1002 (Courante and Double)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Onyx.
    • 7.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op 40

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Terje Tønnesen.
    • BIS.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Abendstern

    Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.
    • This Be Her Verse.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Meditation (Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op.42)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DECCA.
  • Marianna Martines

    Cantata: Il primo amore

    Singer: Núria Rial. Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo: Toccata

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18, MWV R 21: IV. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn: The String Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Symphony no. 1, 3rd mvt; Scherzo - Allegretto

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Ann Ronell

    Willow Weep for Me

    • Lady in Satin / Lady Sings the Blues.
    • AudioSonic Music.
    • 23.
  • Jacob Gade

    Jealousy

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Tango in Blue: Barcelona SO, Serebrier.
    • Bis.
  • Percy Grainger

    Willow Willow

    Singer: Peter Pears. Conductor: Benjamin Britten. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra, Members.
    • Britten The Performer.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade for winds in B flat major K.361, 6th movement; Thema mit Variationen

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Entrée de Polymnie (Les Boréades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto, 1st mvt 'Promenade'

    Performer: Caroline Almonte. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 07.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Hickox.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins, RV 580

    Ensemble: Brecon Baroque. Director: Rachel Podger.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Max Richter

    Love Song (After JE)

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Eloisa‐Fleur Thom. Performer: Max Baillie. Performer: Connie Pharoah. Performer: Max Ruisi. Performer: Zara Hudson‐Kozdoj.
    • In A Landscape.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Concert Waltz in B flat major

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Teldec.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 2 (Danse bohème)

    Conductor: Jesús López Cobos. Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite, Symphony No. 1: Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
    • Telarc.
    • 6.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Oct 2024 09:30

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