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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. Presented by 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 accordionist Ksenija Sidorova.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 19 Apr 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Viola Sonata in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Brahms, Clarke, Vieuxtemps.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Happy, happy we (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Aaron Sheehan. Singer: Teresa Wakim. Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles. Conductor: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49.
    • CPO.
    • 112.
  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    As You Like It (Overture)

    Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Overtures 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K.299 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jacques Zoon. Performer: Letizia Belmondo. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path Bk.1 (The little owl has not flown away)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen / Janacek: On the Overgrown Path.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Wedding of Kije (Lieutenant Kije Suite Op.60)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Prokofiev: 7 Symphonies/Lietenant Kije: Berliner Philharmopniker/Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Marin Marais

    L'Arabesque (Suitte d'un gout etranger)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pierre Hanta茂.
    • Tous les matins du monde (Bande originale du film).
    • Aliavox.
    • 10.
  • Juan Garc铆a de Z茅spedes

    Convidando est谩 la noche

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

    Violin Concerto Op.14 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Seaman.
    • CANYON CLASSICS.
  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Sonnet 1 (Orpheus Elegies)

    Singer: Johannes Euler. Performer: Doga Sacilik. Performer: Jasmin-Isabel K眉hne.
    • Toccata.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DACAPO.
  • Thomas Morley

    It was a lover and his lass

    Singer: Alfred Deller. Performer: Desmond Dupr茅.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Garden Scene (Much Ado About Nothing)

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Alasdair Beatson. Ensemble: Eusebius Quartet.
    • Korngold: Chamber Works.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 203.
  • Richard Wagner

    Forest murmurs (Siegfried)

    Music Arranger: Herman Zumpe. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Ring des Nibelungen.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Gerald Finzi

    It Was a Lover and His Lass

    Music Arranger: John Dankworth. Singer: Cleo Laine. Ensemble: The Jonny Dankworth Seven.
    • Basement Bop, Vol. 2.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.6 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Marvin. Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos; Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Georges Bizet

    Chanson boh猫me (Carmen)

    Music Arranger: Robert Sadin. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Carmen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G "Gypsy"

    Ensemble: Trio 1790.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 5.
    • CPO.
    • 202.
  • John Adams

    Grand Pianola Music (On the dominant divide)

    Performer: Orli Shaham. Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Ensemble: Synergy Vocals. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • John Adams: Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music.
    • San Francisco Symphony.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B flat major D.960 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Radu Lupu - Complete Decca Solo Recordings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 78.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cypresses B.152 (no.1)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Dvorak: American Quartet, Cypresses: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • GERSHWIN Lincoln Mayorga - Harmonie Ensemble/NY - Steven Richman.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

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  • Tue 19 Apr 2022 09:00

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