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The very best of classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 15 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    贰蝉辫补帽补

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Schubert: Four Impromptus, D899 & D935: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Johan Helmich Roman

    Oboe d'amore Concerto in D major (3rd mvmt, Allegro assai)

    Performer: Per鈥怬lof Gillblad. Ensemble: Capella Calmariensis. Conductor: Claes Merithz.
    • Encore: Drottningholmsmusiken.
    • Parlophone Sweden.
    • 12.
  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Sicut lilium inter spinas

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • OBSIDIAN.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    Land of the Mountain and the Flood

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Music of the Four Counties: Scottish National Orchestra/Gibson.
    • Classics for Pleasure.
    • 3.
  • Dace Aper膩ne

    Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)

    Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.
    • Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
    • Skani.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major (Finale)

    Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Haydn: Symphonies 49 & 87 etc..
    • CORO.
    • 11.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    When your sweet glances fall on me (Cypresses)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Old World - New World.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Chaconne (Pha毛ton, Act 1)

    Ensemble: Caf茅 Zimmermann.
    • Les Grandes Eaux Musicalles de Versailles.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Adagio cantabile (Cinnamon Grove, No 2)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 17.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Ballsirenen Waltz (The Merry Widow)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Vienna Soiree.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Clara Schumann

    Am Strande (On the Shore)

    Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.
    • This Be Her Verse.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.
  • Dace Aper膩ne

    Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)

    Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.
    • Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
    • Skani.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet no.1 in D major, Op.11 (2nd mvt, Andante cantabile)

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • CRD.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in A major, Op 5 No 2 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter鈥檚 Virtuosi.
    • DG.
  • John Barry

    Dances With Wolves (The John Dunbar Theme (film version))

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Dances With Wolves - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Epic/Legacy.
    • 24.
  • Helena Munktell

    Summer Night (finale of Dalecarlian Suite)

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Dace Aper膩ne

    Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)

    Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.
    • Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
    • Skani.
    • 1.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Moon Waltz (The Excursions of Mr Broucek - Suite)

    Music Arranger: Jaroslav Smolka. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Janacek: The Eternal Gospel; The Excursions of Mr Broucek.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Anne Nikitin

    The Moonwalkers: Our Companion

    Performer: Anne Nikitin.
    • The Moonwalkers (Original Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    An der Mond D.259

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Ballet of the snowflakes (Le voyage dans la lune)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
    • Offenbach - Overtures & Ballets.
    • Philips.
    • 003.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Sony.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    July, from Das Jahr (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • SONY.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande (Entr'acte)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Horst Stein.
    • Horst Stein - The Sibelius Recordings.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 20.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite in D major)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Henri Mulet

    Rosace (Esquisses byzantines, No 3)

    Performer: Anne Horsch.
    • Organ Works/St.Eustache Paris.
    • ARTE NOVA Classics.
    • 7.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Monkeys (A Brief History of Creation)

    Choir: Hall茅 Children's Choir. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Jonathan Dove: A Brief History of Creation & Gaia Theory.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 112.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major, K.417 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.
    • African American Voices II.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1-7.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in G major, Kk.260

    Performer: Lucas Debargue.
    • Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Aurore

    Singer: Mathys Lagier. Choir: Chorus of the Loire Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅. Orchestra: Loire Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Ravel: Cantates pour le Prix de Rome.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt, Allegro molto)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 8: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.
  • Geraldine Green

    Nocturne for flute and piano

    Performer: Gary Woolf. Performer: Sebastian Kurz.
    • Green Island.
    • ENCORA.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Placa l'alma (Alessandro, HWV21)

    Performer: London Early Opera. Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel's Queens.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 012.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz (Maxim Suite, Op 50a)

    Music Arranger: Lev Atovmian. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich Volume 1.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.

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  • Mon 15 Jul 2024 09:30

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