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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Presented by Georgia Mann.

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

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

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

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

1100 Essential Performers – our final track this week from featured artist, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 17 Jun 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.420

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • MIRARE.
  • Jordi Savall

    Canarios (Improvisation)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • Ostinato.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 10.
  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman - overture Op.7

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald (6 Early songs [from Lieder und Gesange])

    Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Luciano Berio - Orchestral Realisations.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 009.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major for 2 mandolins, RV 532

    Performer: Giovanni Scaramuzzino. Performer: Sonia Maurer. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concert Per Mandolini: Europa Galante, Gabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief  

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet for piano and winds in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ARGO.
  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Clair de lune, Op 46 No 2

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • Apres un Reve: Sandrine Piau, Susan Manoff.
    • Naive.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Märchenerzählungen, Op 132

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Waves (A Sea Symphony)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Kurt Weill

    Four Walt Whitman Songs: I. Beat! Beat! Drums!

    Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • WARNER.
  • Charles Ives

    The Alcotts - third movement of Concord Sonata (Piano Sonata No 2)

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Jeremy Denk Plays Ives.
    • THINK DENK MEDIA.
    • 10.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian rhapsody no.2 Op.19

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1: Thorsen, BPO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Bob Becker. Performer: James Preiss.
    • Steve Reich: Proverb / Nagoya Marimbas / City Life.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 2.
  • Mel Bonis

    Salomé Op.100

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ recording.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Quartet-movement in F major

    Ensemble: Panochovo kvarteto.
    • Dvorak Miniatures.
    • Supraphon.
    • 012.
  • John Dowland

    Fantasia in G major P.1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • George Gershwin

    Strike up the Band (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Tonight - Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.

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