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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is conductor Marin Alsop. With Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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 Performers 鈥 this week our artist in focus is conductor Marin Alsop.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 10 Mar 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    When Young Spring Comes

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Spring Fever.
    • Rising Sun Records.
    • 101.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Pacific 231

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Ga煤cho (tango brasileiro)

    Performer: Angiolina Sensale.
    • Drama Musica.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto in F minor for bass tuba (second movement, Romanza)

    Performer: Patrick Harrild. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Vaughan Williams: The 9 Symphonies: LSO, Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    I baci

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort.
    • Strozzi: Vituosa of Venice.
    • Fieri Records.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Beethoven: Overture, Fidelio & Symphony No. 3.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 105.
  • John Sheppard

    Agnus Dei (Missa Cantate)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Hymn - 2001

    Ensemble: Musiques Nouvelles. Conductor: Jean鈥怭aul Dessy.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    PLAYLISTER CLIP: I baci

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort.
    • Strozzi: Vituosa of Venice.
    • Fieri Records.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817

    Performer: Florian Mitrea.
    • ACOUSENCE.
  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C Major

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • CPO.
    • 201.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance No 2

    Music Arranger: Hans Sitt. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.
  • Francis George Scott

    Ay O. Waukin

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Lisa Milne.
    • Scott, F.G.: Moonstruck - The Songs of F.G. Scott.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 601.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo (Sinfonia)

    Performer: Simon Munday. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Venice by Night: La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler.
    • Avie.
    • 18-20.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Wind Quartet

    Ensemble: Aulos Wind Quartet.
    • Musica Mundi.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    PLAYLISTER CLIP: I baci

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort.
    • Strozzi: Vituosa of Venice.
    • Fieri Records.
    • 2.
  • John Farmer

    Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • English Madrigals and Songs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Nicola Benedetti

    Ae fond kiss

    Author: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory Macdonald.
    • Decca.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (The Mikado)

    Singer: Richard Lewis. Singer: Elsie Morison. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra.
    • The Gilbert & Sullivan Collection.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Duke Ellington

    Prelude to a kiss

    Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington The Best Of.
    • Red Cab Records.
    • 24.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Dana Hanchard. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10.
  • William Walton

    Touch her soft lips and part (Henry V)

    Music Arranger: Christopher Palmer. Narrator: Christopher Plummer. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Henry V etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Isabella Leonarda

    Sonata in D minor, Op 16 No 12 (fifth movement: Gigue - Veloce)

    Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.
    • Naive.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Classical Hits: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Roy Harris

    Symphony No. 3

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude No 110 in A major

    Performer: Nicolas Stavy.
    • Hortus.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Symphony in E major, 'Irish' (3rd mvt, Allegretto)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tu del Ciel ministro eletto (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Cl谩udio Santoro

    Symphony no.7 'Bras铆lia' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orquestra Filarm么nica de Goi谩s. Conductor: Neil Thomson.
    • Santoro: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Bras铆lia".
    • Naxos.
    • 203.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Romanze (Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik')

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Night music: The English Concert/Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Music Arranger: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ray Russell.
    • RCA.

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