Celebrating classical greats
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.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Percy Grainger
Country Gardens
Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.- Percy Grainger: Famous Folk Songs: Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
- Chandos.
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Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (2nd mvmt, Andante)
Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces.- Trumpet Concertos.
- Simax Classics.
- 2.
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Ysaye M. Barnwell
Wanting Memories
Choir: Cantus.- Cantus: Lockdown Sessions.
- Signum Classics.
- 1401.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia for Strings in G major, RV 149
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.- Vivaldi.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 1.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Sheherazade)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- LAWO.
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Hilary Kleinig
Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)
Ensemble: Muses Trio.- Women of Note Vol. 4.
- ABC Classic.
- 13.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (1st mvt, Allegro maestoso)
Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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Josquin des Prez
Scaramella va alla guerra
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Erasme - Eloge de la folie (Version fran莽aise).
- Alia Vox.
- 60.
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Augusta Holm猫s
Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour
Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.- Aux 茅toiles - French Symphonic Poems.
- Bru Zane.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (1st mvt, Allegro vivace)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Gerald Finzi
At a lunar eclipse
Performer: Clifford Benson. Singer: Martyn Hill.- Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain & Other Settings of Thomas Hardy.
- Hyperion.
- 16.
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne
L'Amant anonyme (Overture)
Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.- TMK.
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Hilary Kleinig
Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)
Ensemble: Muses Trio.- Women of Note Vol. 4.
- ABC Classic.
- 13.
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Elena Kats鈥怌hernin
Sunshine Journal (No 1, Allegro)
Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Performer: Elena Kats鈥怌hernin.- Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin.
- Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
- 29.
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Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 2 (Allegretto grazioso)
Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.- Edvard Grieg : Symphony, Symphonic Dances.
- Fazer Records/Finlandia.
- 6.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings in D minor, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt, Allegro)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan 膶i膷i膰. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- Channel Classics.
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Amy Beach
Symphony in E minor, Op 32, 'Gaelic' (3rd mvmt, Lento con molto espressione)
Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Barber: Symphony No. 1, School for Scandal Overture - Beach: Gaelic Symphony.
- Chandos.
- 5.
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Hilary Kleinig
Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)
Ensemble: Muses Trio.- Women of Note Vol. 4.
- ABC Classic.
- 13.
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Katerina Gimon
Fire
Choir: SORA. Conductor: Birgitte N忙slund Madsen.- Elements.
- SORA.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
The Fire; Fire Alarms; Fireman's Chorus (The Bedbug)
Choir: Mannheim Opera Choir. Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald.- Shostakovich: The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a & Love and Hate, Op. 38.
- Naxos.
- 7-9.
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Felix Mendelssohn
O thou, who makest thine angels - The fire (Elijah)
Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Choir: Ch贸r NFM. Choir: Chetham's School of Music Chamber Choir. Choir: North East Youth Chorale. Choir: Taplow Youth Choir. Choir: Ulster Youth Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Mendelssohn: Elijah.
- Signum Classics.
- 119.
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Igor Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (conclusion)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
F眉r Elise
- Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "F眉r Elise".
- Naxos.
- 101.
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Thomas Linley
The Duenna - Overture
Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Director: Paul Nicholson.- HELIOS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (Pas de deux)
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Leonard Slatkin conducts Tchaikovsky Ballets.
- RCA Red Seal.
- 26.
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Trad.
Where were you last night so late?
Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- Last Leaf.
- ECM.
- 14.
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Tobias Picker
Old and Lost Rivers
Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.- Barber, Copland, Berstein, PIcker: American Music of the 20th Century.
- Virgin Classics.
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Barbara Strozzi
O Maria
Singer: Mar铆a Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.- Barbara Strozzi.
- l'empreinte digitale.
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Jacques Offenbach
Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.- William Tell and other favourites: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Kunzel.
- Telarc.
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Manuel de Falla
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Swiss Italian Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.- Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2009.
- Warner Classics.
- 1-3.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha's wedding feast Op.30`1 - part 1 of Scenes from 'Hiawatha': Onaway! ...
Singer: Arthur Davies. Orchestra: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.- The Song Of Hiawatha.
- Decca.
- 7.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
Jazz Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 53 No 10
Performer: Yuja Wang.- The Vienna Recital.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Valborg Aulin
Parisian Scenes (No 3, Ballroom Scene)
Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.- Aulin, Moberg, Andr茅e: Orchestral Works.
- Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
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Franz Schubert
Wanderers Nachtlied, D 768
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.- An die Musik.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Bedrich Smetana
Shakespeare Festival March
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Chandos.
Broadcast
- Tue 2 Jul 2024 09:30大象传媒 Radio 3