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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is legendary American trumpet player Wynton Marsalis. With Georgia Mann.

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 – this week we focus on legendary American trumpet player Wynton Marsalis.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 28 Feb 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Arthur Somervell

    Clarinet Quintet (Intermezzo)

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.
    • Jacob/Somervell: Clarinet Quintets: Thea King, The Aeolian Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Für Elise

    • Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise".
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite (Nocturne)

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem: Philharmonia Orchestra/´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus/Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 14.
  • Moondog

    Chaconne in G major

    Ensemble: Moondog.
    • Moondog (The Viking of Sixth Avenue).
    • Honest Jon's.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Klaus Thunemann. Performer: Hermann Baumann.
    • Philips.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Capriccio in C minor Op.55 'Hommage à Paganini'

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit.
    • Bel Canto.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Alec Templeton

    Bach Goes to Town

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Knight in Armour, Op.8

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G minor HWV.393 'Dresden no.2'

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Breeze Serenade (Dance Card)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 9.
  • Georges Bizet

    Je crois entendre encore (The Pearl Fishers)

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 210.
  • John Knowles Paine

    Symphony no. 2 'In The Spring' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Philipp Telemann

    Gulliver Suite in D major TWV.40:108 (Lilliput Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Danske Violon-Bande.
    • George Philipp Telemann - Heroic Music.
    • Rondo Records.
    • 33.
  • John Adams

    John's Book Of Alleged Dances (Judah to the Ocean)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Gnarly Buttons/John's Book Of Alleged Dances.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Simon Jeffes

    Music for a found harmonium

    Ensemble: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Anon.

    Hanacpachap cussicuinin

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.
  • Paul Desmond

    Take Five

    Performer: Dave Brubeck. Performer: Eugene Wright. Performer: Joe Morello. Ensemble: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • Reader's Digest.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Andante con moto in C minor

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantique des degrés

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • Sony.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Haydn, L. Mozart & Hummel: Trumpet Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • James M. Stephenson

    Colors (Green)

    Performer: John Bruce Yeh. Performer: Alex Klein. Ensemble: Chicago Pro Musica.
    • Liquid Melancholy: Clarinet Music of James M Stephenson.
    • Cedille.
    • 203.
  • John Blackwood McEwen

    On Southern Hills (Drifting Clouds)

    Performer: Murray McLachlan.
    • McLachlan, Murray: The Scottish Romantics.
    • Divine Art.
    • 602.
  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Flipside Music.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    3 Old Dance Airs

    Orchestra: Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. Conductor: Josep Pons.
    • Espana!.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 17-18.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Gigue)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Onyx.
    • 10.
  • Granville Bantock

    Pagan Symphony (6th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Pagan Symphony; Fifine at the Fair; Heroic Ballads.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

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