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A feast of great music

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 – 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

Tue 16 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Céphale et Procris (Overture)

    Orchestra: Cologne Baroque Orchestra.
    • Coviello Classics.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.25 (no.3 in F major)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture

    Orchestra: Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giordano Bellincampi.
    • Carl Nielsen: Symphony Nr. 3 "Espansiva", Helios, Ved en ung kunstners bÃ¥re.
    • Parlophone Denmark.
    • 5.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan Op.59

    Performer: Peter Wesley. Performer: Liivi Arder.
    • PDW.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.104 in D major 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 12.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Testa adorata (La Bohème)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verismo Arias: Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in C minor Op.46 no.7

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Å ejna.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.78 in A major

    Performer: Anna Petrova-Forster.
    • The Birth of the Étude.
    • Toccata Next.
    • 501.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte in B flat major (Rosamunde)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Havergal Brian

    Farewell

    Singer: Brian Rayner Cook. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Toccata Classics.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Barber

    Essay no.2 Op.17

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    O magnum misterium

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta.
    • Self release.
  • Lucrezia Vizzana

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann.
    • Heroines of Love & Loss.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Music Arranger: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ray Russell.
    • RCA.
  • Erwin Schulhoff

    Bass Nightingale (Melancolia)

    Performer: Guus Dral.
    • Schulhoff: Solo & Ensemble Works, Vol. 2.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Mermaid's Song (6 Original canzonettas - set 1)

    Singer: Sarah Walker. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Hyperion.
  • Daniela Mars

    These are my first words

    Performer: Daniela Mars. Performer: Lou Dufoix.
    • These Are My First Words - for contrabass flute, alto flute and strings.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    And God created great whales Op.229 for orchestra & recorded whalesong

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • DELOS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Nunc Dimittis (Vespers Op.37)

    Singer: Konstantin Ognevoy. Choir: USSR State Academic Russian Choir. Conductor: Alexander Sveshnikov.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Elgar Howarth

    Lucerne Song

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Philip Jones Brass Ensemble in Switzerland.
    • Claves Records.
    • 9.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot [Blues] (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Emily Hall

    4.05

    Ensemble: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Snow Queens.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.27 in E minor Op.90 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels.
    • Gilels plays Beethoven.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 104.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Dance (Othello Suite)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Julian Bliss: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Ballade (King Christian II - suite Op.27)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Concerto for strings

    Orchestra: Estonian Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ALPHA.

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