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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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  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites.
    • BIS.
    • 04.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major, 'Clock' (2nd mvt, Andante)

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

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Threshing of the Wheat (Au sein de la nature)

    Performer: Mengjie Han.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Chaconne (L'amour m茅d茅cin)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIAVOX.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Dolores White

    Las Tarantulas

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Gustav Holst

    Suite No 1 in E flat major for military band (1st mvmt, Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • British Wind Band Classics.
    • Chandos.

  • Vittoria Aleotti

    Amor mio perche piangi

    Ensemble: Cantus Thuringia. Director: Christoph Dittmar.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite Op.39 (Polka)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Dvorak: Violin concerto etc: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Swensen.
    • Linn.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.

  • Akin Euba

    Mo ja'we gbegbe (I'm going to live - No 2 of 3 Yoruba Songs without Words)

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • SOMM.

  • Niccolo Pasquali

    Let earth and air and ocean join (The Triumphs of Hibernia)

    Singer: Rachel Redmond. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Whelan.
    • Rachel Baptist: Ireland鈥檚 Black Syren.
    • Linn Records.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Nocturne (King Christian II - incidental music)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • ALPHA.

  • Dolores White

    Las Tarantulas

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (2nd mvt, Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Borodin/Smetana: String Quartet No.2/String Quartet No.1 "From My Life".
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Marianna Martines

    Harpsichord Concerto in E major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.

  • Eric Coates

    Knightsbridge (March - 3rd mvmt of London Every Day Suite)

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Coates: Orchestra Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Andromeda

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta Holm猫s: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 401.

  • Dolores White

    Las Tarantulas

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Donald Swann

    The Spider (in the bath)

    • The Complete Flanders & Swann.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 11.

  • Albert Roussel

    Le festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet): Symphonic Fragments

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • EMI.

  • Josquin des Prez

    El grillo

    Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
    • The Art of the Netherlands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Athanasius Kircher

    Antidotum tarantulae

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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor

    Orchestrator: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Brahms/Dvorak: Hungarian Dances/Slavonic Dances: Budapest Festival Orch/Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Vivaldi & Corelli.
    • Zig-Zag Territoires.
    • 1-6.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Weber Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Imogen Holst

    Mass in A minor (Kyrie)

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Franz Liszt

    Concert Study No 2 in F minor, S.144 (La leggierezza)

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Liszt: Sonate en si mineur, Sonetti di Petrarca, Valse oubli茅e No.2, 脡tude "La l.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 6.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in G major, Op 8 No 2 (3rd mvmt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Suite)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Centenary Edition 1913 - 2013 Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 50-55.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    September (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 009.

  • Traditional Danish

    Marie Louise - The Chat - Gale Warning

    Composer: Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin. Composer: Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen. Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 13.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (2nd mvt, Allegretto scherzando)

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

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor no.6 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 11.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Piano Trio in A major (3rd mvmt, September Rhapsody)

    Performer: Leila Rasonyi. Performer: L谩szl贸 Feny艖. Performer: Alpaslan Ert眉ngealp.
    • Marco Polo.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Sep 2024 09:30
    麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3

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