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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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1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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Tue 25 Feb 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • John Williams

    Superman (Main theme)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Rhino.
  • Henry Litolff

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

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto [fragment] in D major, BWV.1045

    Performer: Natsumi Wakamatsu. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Cantatas: BCJ, Suzuki.
    • Bis.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Van Spaendonck. Performer: 脡liane Reyes.
    • Fuga Libera.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.10 (Purgatorio)

    Composer: Deryck Cooke. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 150th Anniversary Box - Mahler.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Trad.

    Do the Birds Worry?

    Music Arranger: Cyrillus Kreek. Choir: Vox Clamantis. Performer: Anna-Liisa Eller. Performer: Marco Ambrosini. Performer: Angela Ambrosini. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Faust

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Za茂s (Entr'acte)

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • APARTE.
  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B minor (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.9 in E flat major Op.70 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 101.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Et incarnatus est (Mass in C minor, K 427)

    Singer: Arleen Aug茅r. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU LYRE.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in F major, Op 5 No 4 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.
  • Eug猫ne Gigout

    Toccata in B minor

    Performer: Colin Walsh.
    • Great European Organs No.15: Colin Walsh.
    • Priory.
    • 2.
  • Anton Webern

    Langsamer Satz

    Ensemble: Signum Quartett.
    • Quartet Movements.
    • CAPRICCIO.
    • 007.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Bobby McFerrin

    Don't Worry, Be Happy

    • The Best Of Bobby McFerrin.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 1.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    The Lark [after Glinka's song]

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.
  • William Cornysh

    A Robyn, gentyl Robyn

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Metronome.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf (The Procession to the Zoo)

    Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RCA.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 Characteristic waltzes Op.22 (Valse de la reine)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lyrita.
  • Franz Schubert

    Suleika I, D.720

    Performer: Eric Schneider. Singer: Katharina Konradi.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Das Orchester for Kids. Prokofiev: Peter und der Wolf - Britten: Orchesterf眉hrer.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 160.
  • William Henry Harris

    Bring Us, O Lord God

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.
    • Light of the Spirit.
    • Collegium.
    • 2.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Symphony no.5/The Seasons.
    • WARNER.
    • 2.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Piano Suite in E Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • CPO.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Chinese Dance)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 7.
  • Detlev Glanert

    Four Preludes and Four Serious Songs (live)

    Composer: Johannes Brahms. Singer: Konstantin Krimmel. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Fille aux cheveux de lin

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Debussy 鈥 Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Nico Muhly

    Patterns: Move along

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Dreamcatcher.
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Telemann: Wind concertos: Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Trad.

    Banish Misfortune

    Performer: Ronn McFarlane.
    • The Celtic Lute.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 102.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Sextet in A Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Bernhard Hartog. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Tanja Christ. Performer: Georg Faust. Performer: Olaf Maninger.
    • Dvo艡谩k: String Sextet, Op. 48 - Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 Feb 2025 09:30

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