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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 – 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 Performers – our final track from this week's featured artist, American clarinettist Anthony McGill.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Feb 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in G major, 'Burlesque de Quixotte'

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Telemann: Burlesque De Quixotte: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Philip Wilby

    Family Portraits (Lowry Sketchbook)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: James Watson.
    • Philip Wilby: Sacred Symphonies: Black Dyke Mills Band, California State Univers.
    • Doyen.
    • 2.
  • Clara Schumann

    Lorelei

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste (Kuolema)

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Warner.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in G major

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • ARCHIV.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Singer: Ryan French. Choir: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 011.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in A flat major, Op 59 No 2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 8.
  • Christopher Simpson

    February (from 'The Monthes')

    Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.
    • ALPHA.
  • Clara Schumann

    Lorelei

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • György Ligeti

    Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, No 3 (Allegro grazioso)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos. Conductor: Amaury Viduvier.
    • Ligeti, Nielsen & Dvorak: Woodwind Quintets.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 103.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Grand Variations on a Theme by Count Gallenberg, Op 25

    Performer: Jean Muller. Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.
    • Farrenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Nicola Matteis

    Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda ò pur ciaccona)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Darest thou now, O soul

    Choir: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HYPERION.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony in D minor ("No. 0"): Scherzo

    Conductor: Markus Poschner. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz.
    • Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor, WAB 100 "Die Nullte".
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 103.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Minuet and Trio (String Quintet in E major, Op 11 No 5)

    Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 13.
  • Robert Schumann

    Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome (Dichterliebe)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • Sony.
  • Adolphe Adam

    Dance of the Wilis (Giselle, Act 2)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Decca.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Nunc gaudeant materna

    Ensemble: Ensemble for Medieval Music. Director: Barbara Thornton.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ethel Smyth

    The Wreckers (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • EMI.
  • George Gershwin

    The Lorelei (Pardon my English)

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • The Complete Gershwin Songbook.
    • AudioSonic Music.
    • 52.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka (The Bartered Bride)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    To shorten winter's sadness [for 5 voices]

    Choir: Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Stefan Parkman.
    • Winter Sounds.
    • FOOTPRINT.
    • 4.
  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.
    • DECCA.
  • Benedetto Ferrari

    Queste pungenti spine

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35 in D major, K.385 (Haffner): Finale (Presto)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • ASV.
  • Giovanni Sgambati

    Piano Quintet No 2 in B flat major, Op 5: third movement (Andante sostenuto)

    Performer: Francesco Caramiello. Ensemble: Ex Novo Quartet.
    • Sgambati: Piano Quintet No. 2.
    • ASV.
    • 3.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Sonata No 7 in D major)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Oscar Feltsman

    Landyshi (Lilies of the Valley)

    Singer: Gelena Velikanova.
    • Velikie ispolniteli Rossii XX veka: Luchshie estradnye pesni vtoroy poloviny XX.
    • Moroz Records.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Feb 2022 09:00

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