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Georgia Mann - Wednesday

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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鈥檚 starter.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 another outstanding recording from violinist Hilary Hahn.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 14 Jul 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Cl茅ment Doucet

    Isoldina

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les Biches - suite)

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux mod猫les Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Laetatus Sum (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez鈥怲oro.
    • 狈补茂惫别.
  • Walter Braunfels

    Die V枚gel (Prelude and Prologue)

    Singer: Hellen Kwon. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek.
    • DECCA.
  • 3MA

    Anfaz

  • Richard Strauss

    Des Helden Walstatt [The Hero at Battle] (Ein Heldenleben Op.40)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 28.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Pacific 231

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • WARNER.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Souvenirs de voyage (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hermann Gershwin Waxman Copland.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Luonnotar Op.70

    Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Bruyeres (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.
  • Trad.

    The Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Ensemble: Cello Ensemble Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • SONY.
  • Charlie Parker

    Ornithology

    Ensemble: Charlie Parker Septet.
    • RHINO RECORDS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works including Symphony no.3, The Wasps Overture,.
    • HALLE.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV.541

    Performer: David Goode.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto Op.14

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • SONY.
  • John Ireland

    Greater love hath no man

    Performer: Daniel Cook. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Henry Purcell

    See, Even Night Herself (The Fairy Queen Z.629)

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 507.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie Op.24

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-round - galliard (courante) vers. for lute

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Wed 14 Jul 2021 09:00

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