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Georgia Mann with essential Easter music and Dove's Magic Flute Dances

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

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture

    Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    3 Fantastic Dances Op.5

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for Piano - Kathryn Scott.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus Domino meo (Dixit Dominus HWV.232)

    Choir: Taverner Choir. Orchestra: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Handel/Bach: Dixit Dominus/Magnificat: Taverner Choir and Players/Parrott.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Piano Concerto in E Minor, Wq. 24: III. Allegretto

    Performer: Michael Rische. Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concertos.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 9.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Magic Flute Dances; I. Light (Tentative, getting faster and bolder)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-10718.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.2 in B flat major D.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Coda: Apollo and the Muses (Apollon Musagete)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musag猫te & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
    • BIS.
    • 18 - 19.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Fantaisie-tableaux, Op.5 (Barcarolle)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: Suites 1&2: Ashkenazy/Previn.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Asturias (Suite espanola no.1 Op.47)

    Music Arranger: Jarle Storlokken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: tenThing.
    • tenThing.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 4 in A major

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 'Italian'

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • GB大象传媒.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Sextet in D major Op.10 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet. Performer: Jennifer Stumm. Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Souvenirs de Bayreuth

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Faure: The Complete Music for Piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Antonio Pasculli

    Grand Concerto on themes from Donizetti's' La favorita' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Performer: M眉nchener Kammerorchester.
    • Der Charme der Oboe.
    • Sony.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Entr茅e de Polimnie (Les Bor茅ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cos矛 fan tutte)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Cello sonata in E minor, Op.35 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Polt茅ra. Performer: Oliver Triendl.
    • Pejacevic: Trio & Sonata.
    • CPO.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Dance of the Cygnets)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • EMI.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand March (Aida)

    Music Arranger: Alan Fernie. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Symphonic Brass: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1, 'Lobkowitz' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Philips.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Regina caeli

    Choir: Wells Cathedral School Choralia. Conductor: Christopher Finch.
    • NAXOS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata K.466 in F minor

    Performer: Federico Colli.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D minor, D 810, 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Schubert: Death and the Maiden - String Quintet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 3.
  • Howard Hanson

    Symphony No.2 in D flat major, Op.30 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Howard Hanson.
    • Delos.
    • 7.

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