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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 familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

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

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five – Chopin's waltzes are our theme this week.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 18 Nov 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Poulenc: Concerto Pour 2 Pianos, Aubade, Sinfonietta: City of London Sinfonia, H.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Daniel Purcell

    Sonata sesta for violino solo

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2-5.
  • Philip Glass

    I'm going to make a cake (The Hours)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Classic FM.
  • Pawel Lukaszewski

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata no.1 in G major Op.78 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Brahms Violin Sonatas.
    • DECCA.
    • 002.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Afro-Cuban Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • Koch International Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV.904

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Howard Shore

    The Forest (1st mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: National Arts Centre Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Decca.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    On Wings of Song, Op.34 no.2

    Singer: Janet Baker. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • The Very Best Of: Janet Baker.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A Major, Wq. 172: III. Allegro assai

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Times of Transition: Cello Concertos by C.P.E. Bach & Haydn.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Al Hoffman

    If I knew you were coming I'd've baked a cake

    Composer: Bob Merrill. Composer: Clem Watts. Singer: Eileen Barton. Ensemble: The New Yorkers.
    • Jasmine Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (The Wasps)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Là ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Charleston (Kitchen review - suire)

    Orchestra: Holst-Sinfonietta. Conductor: Klaus Simon.
    • Martinu: La Revue de Cuisine.
    • Naxos.
    • 18.
  • John Dowland

    Now, oh now I needs must part / The Frogg Galliard

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Hyperion.
  • Max Richter

    Vivaldi Recomposed: Summer 3

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: André de Ridder.
    • DG.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Grand duo concertant in E-Flat Major, Op. 48, J. 204: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Gloria Chien.
    • Here with You.
    • Cedille.
    • 403.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands; God is gone up

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry.
    • Signum Classics.
  • John Playford

    Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Rubicon RCD1017.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.42

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: The Complete Waltzes: Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Roderick Williams

    Let Nothing Trouble You

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Franz Schubert

    Quartet in D minor, D810 "Death and the Maiden" (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • Death And The Maiden.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Scherza infida (Ariodante)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • HYPERION.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.3 in D minor

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

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