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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

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

1030 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 another in our top picks of music inspired by the moon.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: American Quartet/Piano Quintet: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Go, lovely rose (3 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cloudburst and other choral works.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Chaconne in G major

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Performer: Emmanuele Forni. Performer: Michael Metzler. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Impressioni brasiliane - No. 1. Notte Tropicale

    Performer: Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for recorder and 2 violins, RV.108

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Anna Paradiso. Performer: Jan Bjoranger. Performer: Benedicte Kyllingstad.
    • Bis.
  • An-Lun Huang

    Prelude in C Major Op.5 no.1

    Performer: Xing Rong.
    • An-lun Huang: Piano Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Schauspiel Overture Op.4

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean-Baptiste Senaill茅

    Allegro spiritoso

    Music Arranger: Laurence Perkins. Performer: Laurence Perkins. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • The Playful Pachyderm.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, Op 87 No 13

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    To the Blackbird (26 Welsh Songs, WoO.155)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Marieke Blankenstun. Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Performer: Ursula Smith.
    • Beethoven: Folksong Settings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Ravel/Debussy: Sonata/Pavane/Chansons de Bilitis: Ensemble Wien-Berlin/Deneuve.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Symphony No 1, 'A Night in the Tropics' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra.
    • Gottschalk: Escenas Campestres Cubanas / Gran Overture / Symphonie Romantique No.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Irving Berlin

    Heat Wave

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain (En el generalife)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Alpha.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse Oubli茅e No 1

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Nikolai Lugansky: Liszt.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Howard Hanson

    Before the Dawn, Op. 17

    Conductor: Robert Trevino. Orchestra: Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa.
    • Americascapes.
    • Ondine.
    • 301.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1 Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • A Swedish Serenade.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 arr Avital (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Shalev Ad-El. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Ira Givol. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Avi Avital Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Gentlemen of St John鈥檚. Director: Christopher Robinson.
    • Music for Men's Voices.
    • Priory.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major (finale)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 12.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

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