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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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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Waltz)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso in D minor 'La Folia' after Corelli's Op.5`12

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne - Suite No 1 (Minuetto)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The Best of Bizet.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Cantantibus organis

    Ensemble: The Cardinall’s Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • HYPERION.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quintet in F Minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Till Fellner. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA : 248.
    • ALPHA.
    • 7.
  • Amy Beach

    Symphony in E minor, Op.32 'Gaelic' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel In The Strand

    Performer: Daniel Cook.
    • PRIORY.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Vieni, o figlio! (Ottone, re di Germania, Act 2)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Arias.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • John Ireland

    A London Overture

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ireland: Orchestral Music: Halle/John Wilson.
    • Halle.
    • 9.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    La Flamande - Allemande (Suite in D minor, Pièces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Salvatore Carchiolo.
    • Naive.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry Ripe

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Send in the clowns (A Little Night Music)

    Singer: Judi Dench. Orchestra: Royal National Theatre Band. Conductor: Paddy Cunneen.
    • TRING.
  • Ermengildo Abbate del Cinque

    Sonata No 15 in C major for 3 cellos

    • Arcana.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • John Dowland

    I saw my lady weep

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Hyperion.
  • Leos Janáček

    The Saws (Lachian Dances)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt, Serenade)

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Mirare.
    • 111.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • ERATO.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Prayer

    Singer: Julia Doyle. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Padre Pio: Prayer.
    • CORO.
    • 8.
  • John Rutter

    Waltz (Suite Lyrique)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Blessing.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Hai Luli!

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Merci.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Scott Joplin

    Solace (A Mexican serenade)

    Performer: Richard Dowling.
    • The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin.
    • Rivermont Records.
    • 34.
  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.9 No.8

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 29.
  • 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.

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