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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 rubbing shoulders with 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 our starter today.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we focus on five musical responses to Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 5 Aug 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.5 in G minor)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Unexpected Encounter (Overture)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum Basel. Conductor: Kevin Griffiths.
    • Romberg, Mozart & Haydn: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 8.
  • Steven Stucky

    O Sacrum Convivium (3 New motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis')

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Many Are The Wonders.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Aaron Copland

    An Outdoor Adventure

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Copland: Symphonies Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major D.471

    Ensemble: Trio Zimmermann.
    • Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart鈥檚 Divertimento.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Heino Eller

    Allegretto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor

    Performer: Sten Lassmann.
    • Heino Eller: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 201.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D Major, TWV.54:D3

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1 - 4.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Nostalgia

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto. Performer: Jaques Morelenbaum. Performer: Judy Kang.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Rhapsodie d'Auvergne

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Albumblatt in D flat major

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott: Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmninov, Kreisl.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Orpheus with his lute

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • HYPERION.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto in D major 'Basle Concerto'

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin: Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern, D 795 No 1 (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann.
    • Jonas Kaufman Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Elegy)

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • 150 Years Of the John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 10.
  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (Main theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Bremner.
    • The Big Country.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 1.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Inspiration Waltzes

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 18.
  • Max Bruch

    Romance for viola and orchestra Op.85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Hamlet - suite from the incidental music Op.32a

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Shostakovich: Symphonies nos. 5, 8, 9, Hamlet (suite).
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 1.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Lera Auerbach

    24 Preludes Op.46 (no.8)

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Angela Yoffe.
    • BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Oh Lord, whose mercies numberless (Saul) arr. voice & lute

    Performer: Edin Karamazov. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • The Lute is a Song.
    • Decca.
    • 010.
  • Julius Klengel

    Hymnus Op.57

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • ACANTA.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard sonata in D, Kk.492

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Finale)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.

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