The ideal mix 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 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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Charles Gounod
Waltz (Faust, Act 2)
Music Arranger: Leopold Weninger. Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
- UME - Global Clearing House.
- 31.
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Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.- Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Cecilia McDowall
Now May We Singen
Performer: ORA. Performer: Suzi Digby.- Advent Calendar.
- harmonia mundi.
- 118.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 (1st and 2nd mvts)
Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.- Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures & Fantasias.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 8.
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Franz Liszt
La Campanella
Performer: Lang Lang.- Liszt - My Piano Hero.
- Sony Classical.
- 2.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
Channel crossing (La traversee), from En Voyage
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Joly.- LYRITA.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Bagatelles for 2 violins, cello and harmonium, Op 47 (No 3, Allegretto scherzando)
Performer: Gábor Ormai. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.- Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
- Decca.
- 3.
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Vicente Lusitano
Ave spes nostra, Dei genitrix
Ensemble: The Marian Consort.- Vicente Lusitano: Motets.
- Linn Records.
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Jean Sibelius
Entr'acte (Pelleas and Melisande)
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105, Suite from "King Christian II", Op.
- Ondine.
- 8.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Harp Sonata (2nd mvmt, Lento)
Performer: Maria Graf.- Harp Recital.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 7.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major K.271 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 18: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsn.
- EMI.
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Jeanâ€Philippe Rameau
Chaconne (Dardanus)
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ARCHIV.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
Channel crossing (La traversee), from En Voyage
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Joly.- LYRITA.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos (ballet music - closing section)
Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.- Verdi: Ballet Music from "Don Carlos".
- BR-Klassik.
- 102.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in G major, Op 126 No 5
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- Beethoven: Bagatelles for Piano: Kovacevich.
- Philips.
- 23.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Flowers)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
- 19.
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Florence Price
Concert Overture No 1
Orchestra: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Conductor: John Jeter.- Price: Songs of the Oak.
- Naxos.
- 101.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
Channel crossing (La traversee), from En Voyage
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Joly.- LYRITA.
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Eric Coates
By the Sleepy Lagoon ['Desert Island Discs' Theme Tune]
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- EMI.
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Trad.
Zie Ginds Komt De Stoomboot (Look yonder, the steamboat)
Music Arranger: Jan Rap. Choir: Dutch Children's Choir.- HDCD 1370 Sinterklaas Kapoentje.
- Dennis Music.
- 5.
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Geraldine Mucha
Epitaph (in Memory of Jiřà Mucha)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Gerald Finzi
Channel firing
Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.- A Finzi Anthology.
- Naxos.
- 5.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Folk Sketches
Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Krenz.- Bacewicz: Polish Radio SO/Krenz.
- ACCORD.
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Benjamin Britten
The Birth of Nicolas (St Nicolas)
Singer: Luke McWatters. Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Choir: Holst Singers. Choir: Boys of the Temple Church Choir. Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- A Ceremony of Carols.
- Hyperion.
- 14.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Trio sonata in G major Op.3`6
Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- Linn.
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Max Bruch
Concerto for two pianos, Op 88a (3rd mvt, Adagio ma non troppo)
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Mendelsson/Bruch: Concertos for 2 pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque/B.
- Philips.
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Elena Katsâ€Chernin
Grotesk
Ensemble: Acacia Quartet.- Blue Silence.
- Vexation840.
- 24.
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Georges Bizet
Au fond du temple saint (duet from The Pearl Fishers)
Performer: Bavarian State Orchestra. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Ludovic Tézier. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy.- ³¢'°¿±èé°ù²¹.
- Sony Classical.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Winter Bonfire, Op 122
Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Choir: Finchley Childrens Music Group. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Prokofiev: Music for Children: New London Orchestra/Corp.
- Hyperion.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 94 in G major, 'Surprise' (2nd mvmt, Andante)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.- Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94, 95 & 96.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Claude Debussy
Petite Suite (No 4, Ballet)
Music Arranger: Emmanuel François. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.- Impressions parisiennes.
- Alpha Classics.
- 4.
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Yshani Perinpanayagam
In Bethlehem Above
Choir: Choir of Somerville College, Oxford. Conductor: Will Dawes.- The Dawn of Grace: Music for Christmas.
- Resonus Classics.
- 11.
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Richard Strauss
Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4 (1st mvmt, Präludium)
Ensemble: London Winds. Director: Michael Collins.- Richard Strauss - Complete Music for Winds.
- Hyperion.
- 4.
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George Frideric Handel
Suite in G major, HWV 350, 'Water Music' (Rigadon)
Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
- Archiv.
- 13.
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Gioachino Rossini
William Tell (Overture)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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