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Your perfect classical playlist

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

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

Thu 16 Nov 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Prelude (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Monn: Cello Concerto.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major Op.48, rev. from Op.5: 1st mvt; Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • Poulenc, Prokofiev & Britten: Sinfoniettas.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah: Sarah Chang.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 9 (1st mvt - conclusion)

    Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9.
    • Lso Live.
    • 1.
  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Music Arranger: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ray Russell.
    • RCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13, 'Path茅tique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • EMI.
  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Overture no.2 in F major (Menuett)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Veracini: 5 Ouvertures: Musica Antiqua Koln/Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.
  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Christe, cum sit hic exire (Stabat mater)

    Singer: Elzbieta Szmytka. Singer: Florence Quivar. Singer: John Connell. Choir: CBSO Chorus. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo, Op.34

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Garth Edmundson

    Toccata on 'Von Himmel hoch'

    Performer: Simon Bell.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 26.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor Op.39

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Poulenc: Concerto Pour 2 Pianos, Aubade, Sinfonietta: City of London Sinfonia, H.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Intermezzo Paganini (Carnaval, Op 9)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 24.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boh猫me: Act 2 (conclusion)

    Singer: Elizabeth Harwood. Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Nicola茂 Ghiaurov. Singer: Rolando Panerai. Singer: Gianni Maffeo. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: Sch枚neberger S盲ngerknaben. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Puccini: La Boh猫me.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 15.
  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    Beata viscera

    Performer: Jan Garbarek. Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E major Wq.182`6

    Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    2 Impromptus, Op. 14: No. 1 In B Major

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Scriabin/Faure/Chopin: Impromptus.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
    • 1.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Overture in D minor, Op 49

    Orchestra: Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • CPO.
  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Adagio in D Major, WK 187

    Performer: Lucile Boulanger.
    • Bach & Abel: Solo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 1 (Aragonaise)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Bizet - L'Arlesienne: Suites; Carmen: Suites.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Robert Johnson

    The Fairies' Dance from 'Oberon, the Faery Prince'

    Performer: Nigel North.
    • NAXOS.
  • 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.

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