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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Song of the Day

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music inspired by the story of Romeo and Juliet.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 18 May 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto perpetuo

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Director: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento della ninfa (Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi)

    Singer: Anna Lucia Richter. Singer: Teo Aroni. Singer: Ciro Aroni. Singer: Alessandro Ravasio. Ensemble: Ensemble Claudiana. Conductor: Luca Pianca.
    • Il delirio della passione.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 11.
  • Morton Gould

    Boogie Woogie Etude

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Charles Ives

    Symphony no.3 'The Camp Meeting' (Children's Day)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen (Act 1 Prelude and Interlude)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Leeward (Wind Color Vector)

    Performer: Gerard Cousins.
    • A Gift.
    • Galles Music.
    • 001.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E major BWV.1042 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat 'Schlummerlied' Op.117 no.1

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.
  • David Popper

    Chanson villageoise (3 Pieces Op.62)

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.4 in F minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6.
    • Lso Live.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Maiden's Tryst (5 Songs Op.37)

    Singer: Katarina Karn茅us. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • HYPERION.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata - 1676 no. 7 in C major

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Biber: Sonatae Tam Aris, Quam Aulis Servientes.
    • Helios.
    • 7.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche Op.165b (Brazileira [Mouvement de Samba])

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Piers Lane.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite no.2 Op.1b)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & No.2: Handley.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Kerry Mills

    At a Georgia Camp Meeting

    Ensemble: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen.
    • COLUMBIA.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.4 in G major (4th mvt)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Marcel Dupr茅

    Prelude and fugue in B major Op.7`1

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • The Tchaikovsky Project: Volume 1.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in A major H.16.26

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor RV.105

    Ensemble: Collegium Pro Musica.
    • BRILLIANT.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    M茅lodie (2 Pieces Op.20)

    Performer: Jamie Walton. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.6 in D flat major)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.

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  • Tue 18 May 2021 09:00

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