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Your perfect classical playlist

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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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • Philips.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Op茅ra de Lyon.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C Minor "Path茅tique" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 103.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite: III. Minuet

    Ensemble: London Brass Virtuosi. Conductor: David Honeyball.
    • English Music for Brass: Elgar, Vaughan Williams & Ireland.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe d'amore Concerto (from BWV.54)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Trinity Baroque. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau Soir

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Jean-Selim Abdelmoula.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 in D minor, Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Litolff Concertos Symphoniques Nos 2 & 4.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • 'Where're You Walk' - Aria's for Handel's Favourite Tenor.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in G major, K 313 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima" (Arr. P. Kuusisto for String Orchestra): I. 1957.

    Director: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Nico Muhly & Philip Glass: Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 5.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O nata lux (Lux aeterna)

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Sea Symphony (1st mvt - conclusion)

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Jonathan Summers. Choir: Cantilena. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • EMI.
  • John Ireland

    Sea Fever

    Singer: Jonathan Lemalu. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • EMI.
  • Catriona McKay

    Swan LK243

    Performer: Catriona McKay. Performer: Donald Grant. Ensemble: Red Skies string ensemble.
    • Glimster.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Robinson Crusoe, Act 3: Entr'acte

    Conductor: Alun Francis. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe.
    • Opera Rara.
    • 1.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Main Titles (From "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad")

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Citizen Kane: The Essential Bernard Herrmann.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 10.
  • Tielman Susato

    Basse danse; Branle; Ronde No 6; Saltarello (Danserye 1551)

    Orchestra: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • David Munrow: Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries.
    • Testament.
    • 1-3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tempest Trio.
    • Dvo艡谩k: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 鈥 Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Derek Bermel

    Gliding over Algiers (Murmurations)

    Orchestra: River Oaks Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • INNOVA.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto Andaluz (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Los Romeros. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Piano Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • The Romantic Piano Concerto 70 - Beach, Chaminade & Howell.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Stefano Landi

    Augellin

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • Hush.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    3 Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733: No. 1 in D Major

    Ensemble: Alexandre Tharaud. Ensemble: Michel Dalberto.
    • Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy (Marche des p猫lerins)

    Performer: David Aaron Carpenter. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Ondine.
  • John Dowland

    Queene Elizabeth, Her Galliard

    Performer: Ian Watt.
    • Britten; Walton; McLeod; Wilson; Dowland.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97, 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
    • Robert Schumann: Symphonies 1-4.
    • Arte Nova Classics.

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