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Georgia Mann

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

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

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 27 Mar 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le Nozze di Figaro - opera in 4 acts K.492: Overture

    Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Il Trittico.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartok: Violin Concerto No.1.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Bk 1)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • DECCA.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade (The Sea and Sinbad's Ship)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.
  • John Tavener

    Birthday Sleep

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Gaucho - tango brasileiro

    Performer: Arnaldo Cohen.
    • BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Performer: Clemens Flick.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 22-23.
  • George Gershwin

    S'Wonderful (Funny Face)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bliss. Music Arranger: Neal Thornton. Music Arranger: Lewis Wright. Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra (opening)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major D.664 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Radu Lupu plays Schubert.
    • Decca.
    • 36.
  • Hector Berlioz

    La mort d'Ophelie

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • DECCA.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony a 4 in G minor Z.730

    Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Royal Welcome Songs for King James II.
    • CORO.
    • 1.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Piano Concerto in G minor Op.33 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonio Bertali

    Sonata a 13

    Orchestra: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Luisa Miller (Overture)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi: 7 Overtures: NPO, Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite Op.56)

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 13.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Birthday Suite for Prince Charles (Berceuse)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Michael Tippett.
    • Tippett: Ritual Dances.
    • Nimbus.
    • 12.
  • John Taverner

    Dum transisset sabbatum I

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Gloria Tibi Trinitas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Sonnet (Serenade Op.31)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (nos 2, 9 and 7)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • NAXOS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Symphony in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    The Lord is good for 2 sopranos and chorus

    Singer: Susanna Fairbairn. Singer: Miranda Laurence. Choir: Sospiri. Conductor: Christopher Watson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.322

    Music Arranger: Peter Batchelar. Music Arranger: Richard Wright. Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Chandos.
  • Aaron Copland

    Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • Dances to a Black Pipe.
    • BIS.
    • 1-2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Mar 2023 09:00

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