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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is conductor Zubin Mehta. 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 our featured artist this week is Indian conductor Zubin Mehta.

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

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Last on

Tue 17 May 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Jarom铆r Weinberger

    Schwanda the Bagpiper (Excerpts): Polka

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Karl鈥怘einz Steffens.
    • Weinberger: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 105.
  • Scott Joplin

    Fig Leaf Rag

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Wind Octet no.1 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Carin van Heerden.
    • Myslivecek: Complete Wind Octets & Quintets: L'Orfeo Blaeserensemble/van Heerden.
    • CPO.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Cuckoo! (Friday afternoons Op.7)

    Singer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • Wake Up Calls.
    • Tardigrade Records.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusine Op.32

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio M茅ndez.
    • Schumann & Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
    • LINN.
    • 4.
  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Vocalise for flute, clarinet and harp

    Ensemble: Korros Ensemble.
    • Convivium.
  • Franz Schubert

    Marche militaire in D major, D.733 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Schubert: Marches Militaires: Daniel Barenboim/Radu Lupu.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major RV.181a

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Holland Baroque Society.
    • Channel.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    R锚verie Op.24

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • A Noble and Melancholy Instrument.
    • Bis.
    • 009.
  • William Walton

    Prelude (Richard III)

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • The Walton Edition.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Michael Head

    The Estuary

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Jonathan Lemalu.
    • Jonathan Lemalu: Song recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 118.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Souvenirs de voyage (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hermann Gershwin Waxman Copland.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Scherzo in D minor

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lan Shui.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphonies & Orchestral Music.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Wood (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Mark Simpson.
    • DECCA.
  • Paul Simon

    April Come She Will

    Lyricist: Paul Simon. Singer: Paul Simon.
    • The Paul Simon Songbook.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 4.
  • Django Reinhardt

    Cou Cou

    • Limehouse Blues.
    • Black Sheep Music.
    • 8.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Pastoral (8 Concert etudes Op.40)

    Performer: Catherine Gordeladze.
    • Kapustin: Eight Concert Etudes, 24 Preludes.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Zaide, K. 344: Act I: Aria: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben

    Singer: Sophie Bevan. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Mozart: Zaida, K. 344.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 203.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses nobles et sentimentales

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Herbert Sumsion

    They that go down to the sea

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Performer: David Leigh. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • The British Church Composer Series - Volume 9: The Music of Herbert Sumsion.
    • Priory.
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Lucy Pankhurst

    Diaphanousphere

    Ensemble: Lunar Saxophone Quartet.
    • Flux.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Giovanni Pacoloni

    Passamezzo milanese

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.130 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • DECCA.
  • Elisabetta Brusa

    Firelights

    Orchestra: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo.
    • Brusa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

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