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Georgia Mann with essential Easter music and Farnon's Jumping Bean

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Essential Symphony from the 大象传媒 archive

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential Easter pieces.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Symphony No 1, 'A Night in the Tropics' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gottschalk: Escenas Campestres Cubanas / Gran Overture / Symphonie Romantique No.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Fandango

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Los Pajaros Perdidos: L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 19.
  • Robert Farnon

    Jumping Bean

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339 (Laudate Dominum)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Michael Torke

    Sky, Concerto for violin - 1st mvt 'Lively'

    Performer: Tessa Lark. Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant Zephyri

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Piet脿 - Sacred works.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 115.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 4.
  • Takeshi Furukawa

    Finale II - from the Last Guardian

    Performer: London Voices. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Trinity Boys Choir.
    • ian8bit.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.4 (K.19) in D major

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • GB大象传媒.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Plus que lente, arr. for orchestra [orig. piano]

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Images, Jeux, La Plus Que Lente.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
    • 7.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Max Richter

    Spring (Recomposed)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-4.
  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Le chaos (Les 茅l茅mens)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Rebel: Die Elemente; Gluck: Alessandro.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.3 in C minor - 2nd movement Andante ma non troppo

    Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Valentina Peleggi.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.
  • John Taverner

    Dum transisset sabbatum I

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Gloria Tibi Trinitas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.1 in C "Presto"

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1, 'Ghost' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gryphon Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano trios op.70 nos.1&2, op.11: Gryphon Trio.
    • Analekta.
    • 3.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Escales (Valencia)

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mir ekelt mehr zu leben (Cantata No.170, 'Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust')

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach: Cantats 54 . 82 . 170.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos CHSA 5161.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz Op 64 No 3 in A flat major

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Late Works Opp. 59-64.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

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