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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

  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlesienne Suite no.2)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Cantata No 41)

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 33: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 8 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Harnoncourt conducts Dvor谩k.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 15.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Colour Suite; Blue Air

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • EM RECORDS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Heidenroslein

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 29 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet in G minor (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.

  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah: Sarah Chang.
    • EMI Classics.

  • S茅bastien Le Camus

    Laissez durer la nuit

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Lea Desandre.
    • Idylle.
    • ERATO.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and circumstance marches Op.39 (no.4 in G major)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Elgar: Enigma variations/Pomp and circumstance marches: Royal Philharmonic/Del M.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Allegro Appassionato Op.43

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Hanssler Classic.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C major, no 58, H.16.48 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 7.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.52:G3

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Sabine Fehlandt. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Brukdown

    Ensemble: Bone-afide.
    • DOYEN.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • ONDINE.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue bird, Op.119, no.3

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Bluebird - Music of Contemplation: Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbott.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Blue Tango

    Conductor: Leroy Anderson. Conductor: Leroy Anderson.
    • The Leroy Anderson Collection.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    What pow'r art thou (King Arthur)

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell - King Arthur.
    • ERATO.
    • 18.

  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • Argo.
    • 005.

  • Athanasius Kircher

    Antidotum tarantulae

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 17.

  • Jan V谩clav Hugo Vo艡铆拧ek

    Symphony in D Major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Vo艡铆拧ek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mass in G Major: Agnus Dei

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Singer: Mark Kennedy. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • Poulenc: Mass in G; Motets for Christmas & Lent etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Henri Tomasi

    Trumpet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Music Arranger: Franck Villard. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Fabien Gabel.
    • Tomasi, Jolivet & Others: French Trumpet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 103.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op 101 No 7

    Performer: Radoslav Kvapil.
    • Dvorak: Piano Works Vol.4.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Durufl茅

    Pr茅lude, Adagio et Choral vari茅 sur "Veni Creator": III. Choral vari茅

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Organ Fireworks 13: Organ of V盲ster氓s Cathedral, Sweden.
    • Hyperion.
    • 26.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata, Op 120 No 1 arr Berio

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestrator: Luciano Berio. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song

    Singer: Camilla Tilling. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23.
    • ERATO.
    • 14.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: June - Barcarolle

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • DG.
    • 6.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq183 No1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Caf茅 Zimmermann. Director: Pablo Valetti.
    • ALPHA1043.

  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - Waltz Sequence No 1

    Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.

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