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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.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest

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

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Weihnachtsmusik for 2 violins, cello, harmonium and piano

    Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Christmas Carols: Taverner Consort, Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Ensemble: Barokopera Amsterdam. Director: Frédérique Chauvet.
    • Ligia.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto Andaluz (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Amadeus Guitar Duo. Ensemble: Eden-Stell Guitar Duo. Orchestra: The International Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Horst-Hans Bäcker.
    • Spanish Night.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonata for violin and cello (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott.
    • Duo Sessions.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Quixotte (Overture)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Telemann: Burlesque De Quixotte: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Sally Beamish

    In The Stillness

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa - fantasy in G minor Op.89 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Saëns: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 601.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite in A Minor, RCT 5 (Arr. R. Hekkema for Reed Quintet): I. Allemande

    Composer: Raaf Hekkema. Ensemble: Vienna Reed Quintet.
    • 4 Woods + 1 Sax Play Rameau, Mozart & Ravel.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style, for solo viola, harpsichord and strings: no.2 The rose garden by moonlight

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM.
  • Juan de Araujo

    Los coflades de la estleya

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.
  • John Blow

    So ceas'd the rival crew (Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell)

    Singer: Alfred Deller. Ensemble: Deller Consort.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Thomas Arne

    Fame's an eccho (Comus)

    Singer: Julianne Baird. Performer: Colin Tilney. Performer: Alison Mackay.
    • Dorian.
  • Caroline Dale

    Merlin's Hat

    Performer: Caroline Dale. Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Brown.
    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Dharma Records.
    • 8.
  • Frederick Loewe

    Camelot

    Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. Performer: Richard Burton.
    • Camelot: Original Cast Recording.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op.57

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in D

    Orchestrator: Franz Liszt. Orchestrator: Franz Doppler. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Valentin Silvestrov

    2 Christmas Lullabies: No. 2, Quiet Night

    Singer: Ieva Ezeriete. Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Silvestrov: To Thee We Sing.
    • Ondine.
    • 15.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano trio in E flat major, Op 1 No 1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • Beethoven Piano Trios Vol. 3.
    • Bis.
    • 7.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 0-9 – Wagner: Orchestral Music.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 32.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dixit Dominus primo (Selva morale e spirituale)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    3 mélodies, Op.23'1 - Les berceaux (arr. for String Quartet)

    Music Arranger: Gildas Guillon. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Impressions parisiennes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11: I. Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Signum.

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