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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 Shostakovich's music is in focus this week.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 16 Dec 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920: Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Steve Reich

    Duet for 2 violins and strings

    Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.
    • Different Trains.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesus bleibet meine Freude, BWV 147

    Performer: Edin Karamazov. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • Aparte.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Ye Xiaogang

    Starry Sky, Op. 56

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier. Choir: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus.
    • Winter.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in F major TWV55:F16 (La Tempete)

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Telemann - Concertos & Cantata Ihr V枚lker H枚rt.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 023.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Georg H枚rtnagel. Performer: Irena Grafenauer. Performer: Markus Steckeler. Performer: Edith Salmen-Weber.
    • Saint-Saens: Carnaval des Animaux: Argerich/Frerie/Kremer.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • Mel Torm茅

    The Christmas Song

    Composer: Robert Wells. Performer: Vince Guaraldi Trio.
    • Fantasy.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3, 'Eroica' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 3 and 4.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Los guisados de la berenjena (Rhodes)

    Conductor: Amit Tiefenbrunn. Ensemble: Ensemble NAYA. Ensemble: Barrocade.
    • Latino Ladino: Songs of Exile & Passion.
    • Naxos.
    • 1501.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Nocturne in B major Op.40

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Traditional

    Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

    Music Arranger: Bugge Wesseltoft. Performer: Bugge Wesseltoft.
    • It's snowing on my piano.
    • ACT Music & Vision.
    • 10.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto, 1st mvt 'Promenade'

    Performer: Caroline Almonte. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 07.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cum dederit

    Performer: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Nils-Petter Ankarblom

    Lussepolska

    Performer: Falu Ungdomskor.
  • Trad.

    Five sheep, four goats

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Performer: Mads la Cour. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • dacapo.
  • Richard Rodgers

    The Lonely Goatherd (The Sound of Music)

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Music Arranger: Irwin Kostal. Singer: Julie Andrews. Singer: Angela Cartwright. Singer: Nicholas Hammond. Singer: Kym Karath. Singer: Duane Chase. Singer: Charmian Carr. Singer: Heather Menzies. Singer: Debbie Turner. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Irwin Kostal.
    • RCA BMG.
  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Intermezzi Op.117 (no.1 in E flat major 'Schlummerlied')

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • David Harris

    Love came down at Christmas

    Music Arranger: Ken Burton. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: Owain Park.
  • Megan Underhill

    Love came down at Christmas

    Music Arranger: Ken Burton. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major, RV 564

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Marco Bianchi. Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Paolo Beschi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: 'Il Proteo' Coin. Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Teldec.
    • 1-3.
  • Trad.

    Oh Bellisima Maria, Levantate Bartolito, La Pinata

    Performer: Coro de Madrigalistas de Bellas Artes. Music Arranger: Juan Diego Tercero.
    • Folkways.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Il re pastore (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.4 in D major)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Rachmaninov: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Decca.

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