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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five characteristic pieces of music for the guitar.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 9 Apr 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Lukas Foss

    Composer's Holiday (3 American Pieces)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The American Album: Itzhak Perlman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Quixotte (Overture)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Telemann: Burlesque De Quixotte: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Havanaise

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    North by Northwest (main title)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.
    • DECCA.
  • Sergey Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 30 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Taneyev; Arensky - Piano Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 10 in C major, K 330 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Han-Kun Sha

    Shepherd's Song

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 501.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Concerto No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lynn Harrell. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Martin Carthy

    Lord Franklin

    • TOPIC.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: George Pieterson. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Harpsichord Suite no.2 (L'Amiable; gracieux) [Pieces de Clavecin, 1746]

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • ERATO.
  • Traditional English

    Blow the wind southerly

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.
    • Kathleen Ferrier - Vol.8: Blow the Wind Southerly.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    On The Waterfront - Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • On the Waterfront.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lake in the Mountains (49th Parallel)

    Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata; String Quartet No.2 etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Henri Mulet

    Carillon-sortie in D major

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Organ Fireworks V.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • ELEKTRA/NONESUCH.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.6 in D major, Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Po猫me Op.41

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • HYPERION.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The clouds scatter, Op 42 No 3 (Four Songs)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Singer: Anna Netrebko.
    • In the still of the night; Anna Netrebko, Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    L'infedelt脿 delusa (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.
  • John Dowland

    'Tremolo' Fancy

    Performer: Michael Butten.
    • First Hand Records.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Confiteor; Et expecto)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach: Messe in H-Moll.
    • Archiv.
    • 8-9.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Apr 2021 09:00

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