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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.

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Music Played

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana Overture

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Howard Lorriman. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • OBRASSO.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon.
    • Spheres: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Valse-fantasie in B minor, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Stefano Landi

    Augellin

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • Hush.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Berenice, regina d'Egitto (Overture)

    Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Singer: Klara Ek. Singer: Ingela Bohlin. Singer: Romina Basso. Singer: Mary-Ellen Nesi. Singer: Franco Fagioli. Singer: Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani. Singer: Vito Priante. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • Handel: Berenice. Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Dorothy Howell

    The Moorings

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Dutton.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    Variations on Paganini's Caprice no.24

    Music Arranger: Jacques Ysa每e. Ensemble: Ensemble Capriccio.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Mel Bonis

    Suite Orientale, Op 48 No 2

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Giulio Caccini

    Amarilli, mia bella

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Not just Dowland.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 15.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major, Op 53

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.
    • RCA.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine en Trio in F-Sharp Minor for Flute, Viola & Harp

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Gaby Pas-Van Riet. Performer: Gunter Teuffel. Music Arranger: Carlos Salzedo.
    • French Trios.
    • Claves.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major, TWV 53:D2

    Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO.
  • Patrick Doyle

    Potter Waltz (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Shearman.
    • WARNER.
  • Nikolai Sokoloff

    Polka (Les Vendredis)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Les Vendredis.
    • Simax.
    • 2.
  • Grace Williams

    Sailing Song (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Sea Sketches, Fantasia, Carillons: Camden/Snell/LSO/RPO/ECO.
    • Lyrita.
    • 14.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Rani Arbo

    Crossing the Bar

    Music Arranger: Stephen Taberner. Choir: The Spooky Men's Chorale. Director: Stephen Taberner.
    • Not on Label (The Spooky Men's Chorale self-released).
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Edward Elgar

    March (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Overture in A major

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • Sophia Bass

    Taal-Naad Naman

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Performer: Mari Tanaka. Performer: Vivek Pandya.
    • AVIE Records.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n No. 5 "Portales de Madrugada"

    Ensemble: Aero saxophone quartet.
    • Aero Quartet.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 105.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D 899 No 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 2.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: Espana: Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Dario Castello

    Sonata XV (Libro II)

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Director: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
  • Robert Alexander Schumann

    5 Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102 (Arr. for Oboe & Piano by Stephan Korody-Kreutzer)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Performer: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 10.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Violoncelles, vibrez! for 2 cellos and string orchestra

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Beno卯t Grenet. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Intuition.
    • Erato.
    • 104.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Quartet No 1 in F major for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: Fr茅d茅ric Berr. Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Rossini: 6 Quartets for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon.
    • SONY.
    • 1.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle H茅l猫ne (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • French Bonbons: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

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