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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

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

1030 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we feature music related to architecture.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 22 Jun 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Francesca Caccini

    La pastorella mia

    Singer: Shannon Mercer. Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Performer: Luc Beaus茅jour.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 15.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Representation of Chaos (The Creation)

    Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Andr茅s Orozco鈥怑strada.
    • Haydn: The Creation.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 101.
  • Will Gregory

    High life

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ellipsos.
    • United Colors.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 102.
  • William Walton

    Prelude (Richard III)

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • The Walton Edition.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata in A minor, BuxWV.272

    Performer: William Dongois. Ensemble: Le Concert Bris茅.
    • Sonatas with Cornett.
    • Accent.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La mer)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Debussy: La mer/Jeux: LSO/Gergiev.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 1.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.3 in D minor

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.
  • Benjamin Britten

    O tell me the truth about love; Funeral Blues (Cabaret Songs)

    Music Arranger: Daryl Runswick. Singer: Frances Bourne. Ensemble: Matrix Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • SONY.
  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.
  • James Oswald

    Polwart on the green

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • James Oswald: Colin's Kisses: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Linn.
    • 17.
  • Django Reinhardt

    Minor Swing

    Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • FINAL CUT: Music for four guitars.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • DG.
  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Les 脡l茅mens (Le Chaos)

    Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Enfers.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Deep Field (Earth Choir)

    Choir: Virtual Choir 5. Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Unquiet.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.2 in C minor "Resurrection" (4th mvt)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony no.2: Auger/Baker/CBSO/Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K.297b (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ian Hardwick. Performer: Tom Watmough. Performer: Jonathan Davies. Performer: John Ryan. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Jurowski Conducts Mozart Wind Concertos.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 105.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Hilary Kleinig

    Great White Bird

    Ensemble: Zephyr Quartet.
    • Navona Records.
  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances: San Francisco SO, Edo de Waart.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • ERATO.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Boreades (Entree de Polymnie)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Caprice in E major 'La Chasse' (24 Caprices Op.1)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • HYPERION.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • EMI.

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  • Tue 22 Jun 2021 09:00

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