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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

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Within A Dream: A celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major, RV 150

    Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2.
    • Avie.
    • 17-19.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Sinfonietta Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler.
    • Ruth Gipps: Winds of Change.
    • Three Worlds Records.
    • 11.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major, D.664 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Roland Furieux (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta Holm猫s: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 3.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Fantasia para un gentilhombre (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Milos Aranjuez.
    • DG.
    • 8.

  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz (Faust)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Copp茅lia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.

  • William Grant Still

    Prelude

    Performer: Hartmut H枚ll.
    • Still: Songs & Piano Music.
    • CPO.
    • 118.

  • Charles Koechlin

    Le colibri (3 Melodies)

    Music Arranger: Robert Orledge. Singer: Patricia Petibon. Orchestra: W眉rttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Conductor: Ariane Matiakh.
    • Koechlin: Symphony No. 1, Op. 57bis, Au loin, Op. 20 No. 2 & 3 M茅lodies, Op. 17.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major for piano and wind, K 452 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Neil Black. Performer: Dame Thea King. Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Graham Sheen.
    • Mozart / Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 4.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to Come (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G major Op.6`1

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op. 73

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia/Tone Poems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice (Dance of the Furies)

    Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Traditional Norwegian

    Song of Roland

    Performer: Birger Mistereggen. Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.

  • John Barry

    Love Theme from Robin and Marian

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Robin and Marian.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 6.

  • Sir George Dyson

    The Knight (The Canterbury Pilgrims)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims, At the Tabard Inn & In Honour of the City.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Beethoven - 9 Symphonies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Flute Sonata in F major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean Bregnac. Performer: Jennifer Hardy. Performer: Yoann Moulin.
    • Liebe Amalia鈥�.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • John Cage

    In a Landscape

    Ensemble: Lautten Compagney.
    • Circle Line.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri a 5

    Singer: Susan Hemington Jones. Singer: Tessa Bonner. Singer: Charles Daniels. Singer: Angus Smith. Singer: Jonathan Best. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 10 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Symphonie No. 10: Adagio; Kozena, Gerhaher, Cleve.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 13.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Allemande (Partita No 4 in D major, BWV 828)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Highland Fling (4 Scottish Dances Op.59)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 18.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    February - Carnival (The Seasons)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.104 in D major "London" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • Decca.

  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (2 Elegiac Melodies)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg & Tchaikovsky: Music for String Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartok: Violin Concerto No.1.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

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