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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are the Manchester Camerata. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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 – the first of five tracks this week from our ensemble in focus, the Manchester Camerata.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 27 Jun 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    March (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Brass From The Masters Vol. 2:.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • The Art of the Lute - Paul O'Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in C minor K.388 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • LINN.
  • Iain Farrington

    Animal Parade (Alley Cats)

    Performer: Timothy End. Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • Evoke.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 11.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bruch, Lalo: Little, RSNO, Handley.
    • EMI Eminence.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    Nocturne

    Performer: John Lill. Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • MUSIC OF WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER.
    • ASV.
    • 4.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in C major, S 211

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.
  • Ivan Moody

    O quam mirabilis

    Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen. Singer: Emily Burn. Singer: Victoria Couper. Singer: Clemmie Franks. Ensemble: Voice.
    • Hildegard Portraits.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 201.
  • Ludwig August Lebrun

    Oboe Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux, D.780 (no.2)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Ottavo.
    • 3.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón no.2

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Stefano Landi

    Augellin

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • Hush.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Tempest Op.109 (Dance of the Shapes)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • John Ireland

    Song of the Springtides (Sarnia)

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Ireland: Piano Works Vol. 3: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.
  • Scott Bradley

    Tom and Jerry

    • Songs from Cartoons.
    • Big Eye Music.
    • 6.
  • Maurice Ravel

    L' Enfant et les sortileges (Cat duet)

    Singer: Nathalie Stutzmann. Singer: François Le Roux. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G minor, Kk.30 'Cat's Fugue'

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry (Rejoice in the Lamb Op.30)

    Composer: Imogen Holst. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Ensemble: The Dmitri Ensemble. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Samuel Barber

    Hermit Songs Op.29 (The monk and his cat)

    Singer: Sanford Sylvan. Performer: David Breitman.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas de caractere (The Sleeping Beauty Op.66)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6; Ballet music, etc.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Zez Confrey

    Kitten on the Keys

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Rarities of Piano Music 1989 - Live Recordings from the Husum Festival.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 4.
  • Hoyt S. Curtin

    Top Cat Theme

    • I Grew Up in the 60's.
    • EMI TV.
    • 18.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony no.1 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Quintet Op.16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Cigleris. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: John Mills. Performer: Lydia Lowndes-Northcott. Performer: Bozidar Vukotic.
    • Gipps: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 302.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto no.1 in E major for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque / Bychk.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.4 In G Major (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Erwin Stein. Singer: Kate Royal. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Arranged By Erwin Stein.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.
  • Traditional Polish

    Kazimierz

    Music Arranger: Jerzy Bawoł. Music Arranger: Nigel Kennedy. Music Arranger: Tomasz Lalo. Music Arranger: Tomasz Kukurba. Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Ensemble: Kroke.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Ciaccona (P.43)

    Ensemble: Les Surprises. Director: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
    • Mysterien Kantaten.
    • Ambronay.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido's Lament

    Music Arranger: David Rees-Williams. Ensemble: David Rees-Williams.
    • DePaean.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet Antique

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Ravel: La valse, M. 72 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 701.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    11 Bagatelles Op.119 (no.7 in C major)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 41.
  • Eugène Ysaÿe

    Variations on Paganini's Caprice no.24

    Music Arranger: Jacques Ysaÿe. Ensemble: Ensemble Capriccio.
    • Orchid Classics.

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  • Mon 27 Jun 2022 09:00

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