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Georgia Mann with essential Easter music and Chabrier's Suite pastorale

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Essential Symphony from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ archive

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter pieces.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Toivo Kuula

    Prelude and Fugue Op.10

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Dutton.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42 D. 845: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

    Performer: LlÅ·r Williams.
    • LlÅ·r Williams: Schubert, Vol. 5.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale (3rd mvt, Sous-bois)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in E major, K 261

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PENTATONE.
  • George Gershwin

    Love walked in

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Saint-Saëns/Ravel/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in F major, Op.46 no.4

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, op.46 and op.72.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • William Byrd

    The Bells

    Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Theme and variations

    Performer: Jenny Lin.
    • Bis.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathetique'

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Wagner

    Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV 217

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody no. 1 in E minor

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • English Landscapes.
    • HALLE.
    • 4.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in B major, Op 56 No 1

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Easter Oratorio BWV.249 (opening)

    Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Bach: Magnificat / Cantatas 4, 11 & 50 / Easter Oratorio.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 209.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • DG.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Nymphes des bois/Requiem [La déploration de Johan. Ockeghem]

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
    • Richafort: Requiem: Cinquecento.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in A major Op.18`5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Artemis Quartet.
    • Artemis Quartet: Beethoven - String quartets op.18/3, op.18/5 and op.135.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier (Act 3 Waltz sequence)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • R.Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes, Burleske: Thibaudet/Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

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  • Mon 13 Apr 2020 09:00

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