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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.

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

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five beautiful sarabandes, slow and stately dances.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Jun 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Adolf Hasse

    Mandolin Concerto in G major Op.3 no.11

    Performer: Anna Torge. Orchestra: Il cantino. Director: Mayumi Hirasaki.
    • CPO.
  • Thomas Campion

    Never weather-beaten sail

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian folk dances

    Performer: Lise de la Salle.
    • When do we Dance?.
    • Naive.
    • 19-24.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Chaconne des Scaramouches (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Orchestra: Concert Des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in E major, D 353 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Schubert: String quartets D887 & D.353.
    • DECCA.
    • 8.
  • Isidora 沤ebeljan

    Seliste (Deserted Village)

    Orchestra: Jan谩膷kova filharmonie Ostrava. Conductor: David Porcelijn.
    • CPO.
  • Ferenc Farkas

    Rondo all'ungherese

    Performer: Lajos Lencs茅s. Performer: J谩nos Rolla. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
    • Farkas - Orchestral Music, Vol 3.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 28.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Jardin nocturne (Mirages)

    Performer: Fazil Say. Singer: Marianne Crebassa.
    • ERATO.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Academic Festival Overture (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 3.
  • Trad.

    Unknown Air

    Performer: Duncan Chisholm. Performer: Phil Cunningham. Music Arranger: Duncan Chisholm.
    • Affric.
    • Copperfish Records.
    • 8.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Music from the Mountains: Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Ari Rasilainen.
    • Finlandia.
    • 1-4.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity

    Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • bigo & twigetti.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Concerto for solo piano, Op 39 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Wee.
    • Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano & Concerto for Solo Piano.
    • Bis.
    • 7.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ulf Schirmer.
    • Tales of Opera.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 1.
  • Richard Strauss

    Le bourgeois gentilhomme suite Op.60 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • R. Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite & Ariadne auf Naxos, Symphony-suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. Director: Michael Nyman.
    • CHARISMA.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche Suite)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • Darius Milhaud - Music for Two Pianos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite (Tarentella and Toccata)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frederick Loewe

    The Rain in Spain (My Fair Lady)

    Singer: Julie Andrews. Singer: Rex Harrison.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
  • Johann Rosenm眉ller

    Laudate dominum omnes gentes

    Ensemble: Ensemble 1684. Conductor: Gregor Meyer.
    • Rosenm眉ller: Sacred Concertos.
    • CPO.
    • 1001.
  • Fats Waller

    Vipers drag

    Performer: Lise de la Salle.
    • When do we dance?.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Sarabande and rigaudon, Op 93

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Saint-Saens: Symphonic Poems.
    • NAXOS.
    • 5-6.
  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Performer: Oliver Coates. Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No 5 in B flat major

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    String Quartet in A Major, Op 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Oculi Ensemble.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor K.427 'Great' (Et incarnatus est)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Farnham Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • British Light Overtures 2: RBS, Sutherland.
    • White Line.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Sonata No 3 in D minor)

    Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • Bis.
    • 6.

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  • Fri 4 Jun 2021 09:00

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