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Your perfect classical playlist

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 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

Tue 28 Nov 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayane)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Decca.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ward Stare.
    • American Rapture.
    • Azica.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • David Lang

    Amjad: Sleeping Panorama

    Performer: Jennifer Thiessen. Performer: Jill van Gee. Performer: Elisabeth Giroux. Performer: Njo Kong Kie.
    • GB RECORDS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)

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

    Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival.
    • DG.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata no.2 in F major Op.99 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Hans Rott

    Symphony no.1 in E major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • RCA.
  • William Walton

    Sinfonia Concertante (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vedrai, carino (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Wiener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Gy枚rgy Fischer.
    • Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart Arias.
    • DECCA.
    • 6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne Op.40 'In London Town'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • First Hand Records.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Sextet in C major Op.37 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen (First music - Prelude)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629: The Sisteen, Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 1.
  • Henri Mulet

    Carillon-sortie in D major

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Organ Fireworks V.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Robert Schumann

    Tr盲umerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Ah! non credea mirarti (La Sonnambula)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Singer: Nicola Monti. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Antonino Votto.
    • Bellini: La sonnambula.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 36.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata BWV.140)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas.
    • DG.
    • 9.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Sylvia (Act 3 Divertissement: Pizzicato)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.
    • MERCURY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Im Abendrot D.799

    Orchestrator: Max Reger. Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Oscar Jockel.
    • Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 114.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse Impromptu S.213

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Horizons - A Personnal Collection of Piano Encores.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Toshio Hosokawa

    Lullaby of Itsuki (Japanese Folk Songs)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christian Rivet.
    • WARNER.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.7 in D minor Op.70 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Dvor谩k: Complete Symphonies & Concertos.
    • DECCA.
    • 36.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini?

    Choir: The Brabant Ensemble. Conductor: Stephen Rice.
    • Guerrero: Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus, Magnificat & Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Caprice fantastique

    Music Arranger: R贸zsika R茅vay. Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

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