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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is flautist Emmanuel Pahud. With Georgia Mann.

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 Performers 鈥 another track from our artist in focus this week, flautist Emmanuel Pahud.

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

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Last on

Tue 15 Mar 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Alb茅ric Magnard

    Quintet for Piano & Winds Op.8 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in E flat major BWV.998

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Karen Tanaka

    3 Water Dances (no.1)

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • 2L.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major D.471

    Ensemble: Trio Zimmermann.
    • Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart鈥檚 Divertimento.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Go, lovely rose (3 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cloudburst and other choral works.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    The Magic Opal - suite (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in B flat major K.333 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 403.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Capriccio sinfonico

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Threshing of the Wheat (Au sein de la nature)

    Performer: Mengjie Han.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quartet no.1 in A major Op.4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Zemlinsky: String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Music Arranger: Isao Tomita. Performer: Isao Tomita.
    • Tomita: Snowflakes are dancing.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Barbara Bonney: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Teldec.
    • 11.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevi膷ius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    L' Ondine [The Water sprite] Op.101

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.
    • 6.
  • Gene Kelly

    Singin' In The Rain

    • The Very Best Crooners.
    • TV Music.
    • 30.
  • Marin Marais

    Suite in G major (Chaconne)

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo. Performer: Am茅lie Chemin. Performer: Thomas C. Boysen. Performer: Markus H眉nninger.
    • Marais: Pieces for one and two Viols.
    • Glossa.
    • 10.
  • An-Lun Huang

    Saibei Dance (Saibei Suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Delights & Dances.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
    • 1.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Paris: Emmanuel Pahud/Eric Le Sage.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1-3.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Darf ich... for violin, bell and strings

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Nordic Noir.
    • DECCA.
    • 006.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Finale)

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

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Doreen Carwithen. Work incl. Overture (ODTAA), Suffolk suite and others.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Gloria)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Waltz Sequence no.1 (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Symphonic music from operas.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

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  • Tue 15 Mar 2022 09:00

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