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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 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.

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

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 5 Apr 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Les Paladins. Director: Jérôme Corréas.
    • Handel: Enchantresses.
    • Alpha.
    • 14.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9 no.1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Force of Destiny (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 English folk songs, arr. for chorus: no.1; The Dark-eyed sailor

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Lukas Foss

    Composer's Holiday (3 American Pieces)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The American Album: Itzhak Perlman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 ( 4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Sony.
  • Toumani Diabaté

    Bi Lambam

    Composer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Toumani Diabaté. Performer: Ballaké Sissoko.
    • New Ancient Strings.
    • Hannibal.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.35 in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.1 in A flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Elgar: Symphony No. 1 & Introduction and Allegro.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gelido in ogni vena (Farnace RV.711)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet in G minor Op.27 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Engegårdkvartetten.
    • Grieg, Thommessen & Sibelius: String Quartets.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Alexander Mosolov

    Harp concerto (4th mvt)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet for piano and winds in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)

    Composer: Deryck Cooke. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 150th Anniversary Box - Mahler.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Henry Wood

    Tom Bowling (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Cooke.
    • The Last Night of the Proms.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 111.
  • Henry Purcell

    Come away, fellow sailors (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Daniel Lochmann. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Percy Grainger

    Shallow Brown

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Choir: Joyful Company of Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol. 3: Works for Chorus and Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • William Walton Symphonies & Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus)

    Music Arranger: Sebastien Dubé. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Sebastien Dubé.
    • SONY.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major Op.40: 2nd movement

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Judith Weir

    O Viridissima

    Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble.
    • Airs from Another Planet: Chamber Music and Songs by Judith Weir.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.
  • Mons Leidvin Takle

    Festmusikk

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Hyperion.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HYPERION.
  • James McMillan

    Seven Last Words from the Cross (7th mvt - conclusion)

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Temas populares Cubanos (Guajira Criolla)

    Performer: Philippe Lemaigre.
    • L Brouwer - Philippe Lemaigre.
    • Ricercar.
    • 9.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    A Reel (4 Irish dances Op.89)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Performer: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

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