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A feast of great music

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

Thu 7 Dec 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E major BWV.1042 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.
  • Judith Weir

    Drop down ye heavens from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton: Choir of Merton College, Oxford.
    • Delphian.
    • 5.
  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point - overture

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.420

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • MIRARE.
  • Haydn Wood

    Joyousness

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: George Weldon.
    • British Light Music: Coates/Dunn/Kilbey/Weldon.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Love for Three Oranges (March)

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 18.
  • Louis Vierne

    Messe solennelle: Kyrie eleison

    Performer: Marie鈥怌laire Alain. Performer: Andr茅 Luy. Choir: Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne. Conductor: Michel Corboz.
    • Vierne, Alain & Langlais: Messes pour ch艙urs et deux orgues.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Mats Lidstr枚m

    Tango

    Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • CAPRICE.
  • Jules Massenet

    Aragonaise (Le Cid)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • EMI.
  • John Taverner

    Audivi vocem

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Great Escape (main theme)

    Music Arranger: James Langley. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Raine.
    • Film Music Gala: A Celebration of the Greatest Film Music Ever Written.
    • RPO.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Alison Willis

    I Sing of a Maiden

    Performer: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Owain Park.
  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin and Piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Matthew Hagle.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 403.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Goethe-Lieder: Anakreons Grab

    Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • DG.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114 - II. Adagio

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Rachmaninoff & Brahms.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.
  • John Rutter

    Hymn to the Creator of Light

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.
  • Simon Lindley

    Joys Seven

    • A Christmas Celebration.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse Marche

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • George Frideric Handel

    "Happy we!" (Acis & Galatea)

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.
  • Francisco Mignone

    Congada

    Performer: Sergio Tiempo. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Hommage.
    • AVANTI.
    • 8.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Shepherd's Carol

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Choir of Westminster Abbey - Christmas Carols.
    • DG.
    • 19.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Waltzes for piano (Op.34), no.2 in A minor

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Richard Lloyd

    Drop Down Ye Heavens

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Christopher Robinson.
    • Nimbus.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo (Toccata)

    Ensemble: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Ensemble: Les Sacqueboutiers. Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • Virgin.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

    Performer: Leon Fleisher. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • SONY Classical.

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