The very best of classical 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.
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L茅o Delibes
Copp茅lia (Waltz)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- 100 Best Ballet.
- EMI Classics.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 101 in D major, 'Clock' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
- Naive.
- 10.
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Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water
Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.- Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent, Vol. 1.
- MSR Classics.
- 9.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Ave Maria (Vespers, No 6)
Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.- Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil.
- Ondine.
- 6.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Lute concerto in D major, RV.93
Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.- ALPHA.
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Caroline Shaw
Second Essay: Echo
Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.- Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
- Signum Classics.
- 6.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No 8 in G major, Op 88 (3rd mvmt, Allegretto grazioso)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Philips.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Whither must I wander? (Songs of Travel)
Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.- Naxos.
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Anon.
Propin谩n de Melyor
Ensemble: Piffaro.- LOS MINISTRILES: Spanish Renaissance Wind Music.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 18.
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Arvo P盲rt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.- Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa.
- ECM.
- 2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni (Overture)
Orchestra: Kolner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.- Mozart: Overtures.
- BIS.
- 109.
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H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult
Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2 no.3 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.- Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas.
- Rubicon.
- 5.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee susse (Coffee Cantata, BWV.211)
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.- J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
- BIS.
- 14.
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Caroline Shaw
Second Essay: Echo
Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.- Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
- Signum Classics.
- 6.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Introduction (The Lilac Fairy)
Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko.- Tchaikovksy: Orchestral Works.
- Oehms Classics.
- 401.
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Se贸irse Bodley
Symphony No 2, 'I have loved the lands of Ireland' (7th mvmt)
Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Houlihan.- RTE Lyric fm.
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Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
String Quartet No 5 in F major (4th mvmt, Minuetto)
Ensemble: Accademia della Magnifica Comunita.- Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartets Nos. 1-6.
- Tactus.
- 504.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Tarentelle Op.6
Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.- Synergy.
- BIS.
- 20.
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Caroline Shaw
Second Essay: Echo
Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.- Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
- Signum Classics.
- 6.
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Mel Bonis
Narcisse
Performer: Claudine Simon.- Ligia.
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Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas: In our deep vaulted cell; Echo Dance of Furies
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.- El poder de Purcell.
- UME - Global Clearing House.
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Duke Ellington
Echoes of Harlem
Director: Oliver Nelson.- Three Shades of Blue.
- Ace Records.
- 3.
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Jacob van Eyck
Fantasia and Echo
Performer: Frauke Rauterberg.- Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof.
- primTON.
- 5.
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Benjamin Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls)
Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- Britten: Serenade; Les Illuminations; Nocturne.
- Decca.
- 3.
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Jean Sibelius
Pan and Echo
Orchestra: Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri. Conductor: Shuntaro Sato.- FINLANDIA.
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Aram Khachaturian
Sabre Dance (Gayane)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.- Decca.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 (2nd mvmt, Andante)
Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.- Faur茅: The music for Cello and Piano.
- La Dolce Volta.
- 111.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
Orchestra: The Women鈥檚 Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Koch.
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Philip Herbert
Elegy for 18 strings (In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence)
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.- Spark Catchers.
- NMC.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Violin Sonata in D major, Op 5 No 1 (6th mvmt, Allegro)
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.- Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.- Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works.
- Warner Classics.
- 22.
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- Fri 26 Jan 2024 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3