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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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Music Played

  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Toccata (Symphony No.5 in F minor)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • The Virtuoso Organist: Wayne Marshall.
    • EMI.
    • 14.

  • John Williams

    Jurassic Park (main theme)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams. Conductor: John Williams.
    • MCA Records.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Concerto in B flat - 3rd mvt: Allegro

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Orchestra: Neubrandenburger Philharmonie. Conductor: Sebastian Tewinkel.
    • Capriccio.

  • Frank Merrick

    Suite in the 18th Century Style; 6. Bourees 1 & 2

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • British Solo Cello Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 27.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for multiple instruments in C major, RV 558 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Finzi: Dies Natalis, Op. 8 - 2. Rhapsody (Recitativo Stromentato)

    Lyricist: Thomas Traherne. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto; Dies Natalis; Nocturne; Romance.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in B flat major, D 935 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D935: Perahia.
    • Sony.
    • 7.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Francisco Correa de Arauxo

    Batalla de Morales

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • John Ireland

    Sea Fever

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

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Sibelius : Symphonies 1 & 5 - Live in St. Petersburg.
    • Fazer.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky.
    • Pentatone.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet no.1 in D minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Ensemble: Domus.
    • HYPERION.

  • Nigel Hess

    A Celebration Overture

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Balcombe.
    • The Way of Light - The Music of Nigel Hess.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 01.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition orch Ravel)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique du Russie. Conductor: Mark Gorenstein.
    • Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Orch. Symphonique du Russie/Gorenstein.
    • Le Chant du Monde.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation, Hob. XXI:2, Pt. 1: No. 1a, The Representation of Chaos

    Singer: Philip Langridge. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Haydn: The Creation, Hob. XXI:2.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite: III. Busy-ness! (Allegro molto)

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 17.

  • Peter Heidrich

    Happy Birthday in the manner of Tango

    Performer: Ang猫le Dubeau. Ensemble: La Pieta. Conductor: Peter Heidrich.
    • ANALEKTA.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 1 No 7

    Orchestra: Raglan Baroque Players. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore, Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)

    Singer: Pene Pati. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Pene Pati.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance, Op.22 no.2

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance.
    • Decca.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Samuel Barber

    4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 3. Sure on this shining night

    Performer: Ben Kennedy. Choir: Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • SOMM Recordings.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in G major, Op 18 No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets Vol. 1.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio M茅ndez.
    • Linn CKD 555.
    • Linn.
    • 5.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Douglas Boyd. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Schneider.
    • Mozart, Vivaldi, Marcello, Wolf, J. Strauss: Schneider 80th Birthday Concert.
    • COE Records.
    • 009.

  • Dani Howard

    Argentum

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Seal.
    • Rubicon.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 9 in E Major "La chasse"

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices 鈥� Caprices by Berlioz, Cervell贸, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Only In Sleep

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights and other Choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    An Silvia D.891

    Performer: Eric Lu. Singer: Benjamin Appl.

  • Eric Coates

    The Princess Elizabeth (The Three Elizabeths Suite)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

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