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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 17 May 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky.
    • Universal Music Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D Minor D. 810 'Death and the Maiden' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Love and Death.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 12.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra ma fu (Serse)

    Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • ReJOYCE!.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 7.
  • Mel Bonis

    Ophélie (Trois femmes de legende)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.
  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in C major RV.471

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Ensemble: L'Aura Soave Cremona. Conductor: Diego Cantalupi.
    • vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto I.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and Rondo in C minor K.617 (Rondo)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin. Music Arranger: Michael Hasel.
    • Mozart/Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds: Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet/H.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • John Lennon

    Blackbird

    Composer: Paul McCartney. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
  • Miss LH of Liverpool

    My mother

    Singer: James Newby. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ New Generation Artists recording.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Violin Concerto Op.33 (Rondo)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • William Byrd

    Attollite portas

    Singer: Clare Wilkinson. Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols.
    • Deux-Elles.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.
  • George Gershwin

    2 Waltzes in C major

    Performer: Frank Braley.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Ophelia's song

    Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Stone Records.
  • Philip Glass

    I'm going to make a cake (The Hours)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido & Aeneas)

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • The Best ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 13.
  • Trad.

    Mack Beth / Sheugare Candie

    Music Arranger: Concerto Caledonia. Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Revenge of the Folksingers.
    • Delphian.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    32 Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • LINN.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fêtes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Greatest Hits.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • John Cage

    In a Landscape

    Performer: Lauren Scott.
    • Beyond the Horizon: New Music for Lever Harp.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 8.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Ruby Hughes. Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Champs Hill Records CRCD106.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.76 no.6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • 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.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 May 2023 09:00

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