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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.

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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  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Playful Pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Air pour les guerriers; Air pour les amants; Orage (Les Indes galantes)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Performer: Jordi Savall. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 25.
  • Nino Rota

    Harp Concerto - I. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Warner Classics.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Arabesque in G minor Op.61 for piano

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • Piano Classics.
  • Heino Eller

    Videvik (Twilight) - Tone Poem

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Music from Estonia vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major: 'Scherzo' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joe Hisaishi

    Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Volume 2, Nos. 1, 4 & 6.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.
  • Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer

    An den Schlaf

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • Trennung: Songs of Separation.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Heino Eller

    Videvik (Twilight) - Tone poem

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Music from Estonia vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.
  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Ondine.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    L茅gende Op.17

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV.847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.3 in D major Op.33 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in C major, Op 24 No 2

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Videvik (Twilight) - Tone Poem

    Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
  • Richard Wagner

    G枚tterd盲mmerung, WWV 86D, Act III: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch

    Orchestra: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.
    • Wagner: G枚tterd盲mmerung, WWV 86D.
    • Naxos.
    • 409.
  • Frederick Delius

    Twilight Fancies

    Performer: Ian Bostridge.
  • Thelonious Monk

    Crepuscule with Nellie

    Performer: Thelonious Monk Quartet.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet no.1 in A minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble of London.
    • Louise Farrenc: The Two Piano Quintets.
    • ASV.
    • 03.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Ravel - orchestral works.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Jean Richaford

    'Sanctus' from Missa O Genitrix gloriosa

    Choir: Cappella Mariana. Performer: Vojt臎ch Semer谩d.
    • MUSIQUE EN WALLONIE.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Histoire du Tango: Caf茅 1930

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Reentko Dirks.
    • ALPHA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird Suite

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis Op.24 (Ich wandelte unter den B盲umen)

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes & bassoon in D, TWV54.D3: Vivace

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Fela Sowande

    2 Preludes on Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies: No. 1, 鈥淜鈥橝 Mura鈥

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Papagena! Papagena! (from The Magic Flute)

    Performer: Walter Berry. Performer: Olivera Miljakovic. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Mozart: The Magic Flute.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 225.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata for Solo Instrument and Continuo KK90 arr. for Mandolin

    Performer: Anna Schivazappa. Performer: Ronald Martin Alonso. Performer: Daniel de Morais. Performer: Fabio Antonio Falcone. Ensemble: Pizzicar Galante.
    • ARCANA.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.6 in D major, Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.

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