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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.

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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Last on

Wed 25 Sep 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    4 Estaciones Porte帽as: IV. Oto帽o

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester.
    • Four Seasons.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 501.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in E minor Hess13

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Pascal Gallois. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto/Violin Romances: Chung Trio/Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.
    • Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Ondine.
    • 13.
  • Somei Satoh

    Bifu

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde, D 797 (Ballet in G major)

    Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Schubert: Symphony No 8, Rosamunde, Zauberharfe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Divertimento, Op.9

    Performer: Christopher O'Neal. Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Deux-Elles.
  • Edward Gregson

    Euphonium Concerto (3rd mvt: A Celtic Bacchanal)

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro : Non piu andrai

    Singer: Luca Micheletti. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Julia Jones.
  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiest眉cke, Op 73 No 1

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Argerich, Kremer, Maisky: The complete duo of recordings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Phaeton (Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • APARTE.
  • Hans G谩l

    Variations on a Viennese 'Heurigen' melody Op.9

    Ensemble: Briggs Piano Trio.
    • Gal; Shostakovich: Piano Trios.
    • AVIE.
    • 4.
  • Philip Glass

    Japur谩 River (Aguas da Amazonia)

    Ensemble: Uakti.
    • Orange Mountain.
  • Richard Strauss

    Duett-concertino AV.147 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Stepan Turnovsky. Orchestra: Academy of London. Conductor: Richard Stamp.
    • Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude to Capriccio 鈥 Copland: Clarinet Concerto, App.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Ercole su'l Termodonte, RV 710 - Zeffiretti che sussurate

    Music Arranger: Claudio Osele. Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Duke Ellington

    Things Ain't What They Used to Be

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    La dama boba (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures & Intermezzi: Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marrine.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.
  • John Ireland

    Bagatelle

    Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Ireland: Piano Trios.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Frederick Delius

    Late swallows, arr. Fenby for string orch [from 3rd mvt of Quartet for strings]

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major H.15.27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Joseph Haydn - Piano Trios.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris (Arranged for Chamber Ensemble)

    Performer: Eliza Marshall. Performer: Rachel Harwood-White. Performer: Derek Hannigan. Performer: Paul Allen. Performer: Paul Boyes. Performer: Dominic Childs. Performer: Will Padfield. Performer: Mike Lovatt. Performer: Andrew Connington. Performer: Craig Apps. Performer: Matthew Scrivener. Performer: Elias Rooney. Performer: Christine Anderson. Performer: Katy Furmanski. Performer: George Barton. Performer: Iain Farrington. Performer: Nathaniel Anderson-Frank. Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.
    • iMD-DPRecords.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.
  • Ale Carr

    Stormpolskan

    Performer: Nikolaj Busk. Performer: Ale Carr.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 3.
  • Johann Georg Pisendel

    Allegro [concerto movement] in A minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    The Rhine Nixies (Grand Waltz)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Sep 2024 09:30

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