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Friday - Georgia's classical alternative

Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from the Royal Albert Hall, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 26 Jul 2019 06:30

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Barcarolle no.3 in G flat major Op.42

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Jules Massenet

    Tha茂s (Meditation)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 4.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Silenzio nocivo

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 4 BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Cracovia. Director: Jennifer Pike.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Notturno in E flat major, D.897

    Performer: Natalia Lomeiko. Performer: Yuri Zhislin. Performer: Ivan Martin.
    • Lomeiko: Zhislin: Martin.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 13.
  • Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

    Praise the name of the Lord (All-Night Vigil)

    Choir: Moscow Patriarch Choir of Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Conductor: Ilya Tolkachev.
    • Hidden Music of the Russian Church.
    • Christophorus.
    • 005.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op.324

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Summer shimmers across the glass of green ponds

    Performer: Gary Graffman. Ensemble: Lark Quartet.
    • Jennifer Higdon: An Exaltation of Larks.
    • BRIDGE.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Allemande)

    Performer: Anner Bylsma.
    • J.S. Bach: Cello Suites: Anner Bylsma.
    • RCA.
    • 2.
  • Friday Poem

    • 'The Brook' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, read by Ralph Feinnes

  • Franz Liszt

    Ann茅es de p猫lerinage, S.160 'Suisse' (Au bord d'une source)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Liszt: Ann茅es de p猫lerinage I, S. 160 "Suisse" & L茅gende No. 2.
    • Orfeo.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Act 1, No 2: Waltz)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Famous Waltzes.
    • Teldec.
  • William Grant Still

    Land of romance (Africa)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 3.
  • Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian

    Two Sisters

    Singer: Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian.
    • ACCIDENTAL RECORDS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Ave Maria

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • 大象传媒 recording from Cadogan Hall Prom, July 22nd 2019.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Jazz Pizzicato

    Orchestra: The London Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • MERCURY.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sleep my beauty (May Night, Act III)

    Singer: Leonid Sobinov.
    • SYMPOSIUM.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain (En el generalife)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • George Gershwin

    Funny Face (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Brooker.
    • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.

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