The very best of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Emmanuel Chabrier
贰蝉辫补帽补
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Escales.
- Chandos.
- 01.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3
Performer: Radu Lupu.- Schubert: Four Impromptus, D899 & D935: Radu Lupu.
- Decca.
- 3.
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Johan Helmich Roman
Oboe d'amore Concerto in D major (3rd mvmt, Allegro assai)
Performer: Per鈥怬lof Gillblad. Ensemble: Capella Calmariensis. Conductor: Claes Merithz.- Encore: Drottningholmsmusiken.
- Parlophone Sweden.
- 12.
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Suor Leonora d'Este
Sicut lilium inter spinas
Ensemble: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.- OBSIDIAN.
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Hamish MacCunn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.- Music of the Four Counties: Scottish National Orchestra/Gibson.
- Classics for Pleasure.
- 3.
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Dace Aper膩ne
Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)
Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.- Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
- Skani.
- 1.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 87 in A major (Finale)
Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. Director: Harry Christophers.- Haydn: Symphonies 49 & 87 etc..
- CORO.
- 11.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
When your sweet glances fall on me (Cypresses)
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.- Old World - New World.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 7.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Chaconne (Pha毛ton, Act 1)
Ensemble: Caf茅 Zimmermann.- Les Grandes Eaux Musicalles de Versailles.
- Alpha.
- 1.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
Adagio cantabile (Cinnamon Grove, No 2)
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- My Cup Runneth Over.
- NAVONA.
- 17.
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Franz Leh谩r
Ballsirenen Waltz (The Merry Widow)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Vienna Soiree.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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Clara Schumann
Am Strande (On the Shore)
Performer: Jonathan Ware. Singer: Golda Schultz.- This Be Her Verse.
- Alpha Classics.
- 3.
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Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- Geminiani: Concerti Grossi: Academy of Ancient Music.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 18.
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Dace Aper膩ne
Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)
Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.- Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
- Skani.
- 1.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
String Quartet no.1 in D major, Op.11 (2nd mvt, Andante cantabile)
Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.- CRD.
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne
Violin Concerto in A major, Op 5 No 2 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)
Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter鈥檚 Virtuosi.- DG.
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John Barry
Dances With Wolves (The John Dunbar Theme (film version))
Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.- Dances With Wolves - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
- Epic/Legacy.
- 24.
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Helena Munktell
Summer Night (finale of Dalecarlian Suite)
Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.- Sterling.
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Dace Aper膩ne
Towards the Moon (2 Fantasies for saxophone quartet & piano, No 1)
Performer: Herta Hansena. Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet.- Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
- Skani.
- 1.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Moon Waltz (The Excursions of Mr Broucek - Suite)
Music Arranger: Jaroslav Smolka. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.- Janacek: The Eternal Gospel; The Excursions of Mr Broucek.
- Hyperion.
- 8.
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Anne Nikitin
The Moonwalkers: Our Companion
Performer: Anne Nikitin.- The Moonwalkers (Original Soundtrack).
- Silva Screen Records.
- 2.
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Franz Schubert
An der Mond D.259
Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haefliger.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Jacques Offenbach
Ballet of the snowflakes (Le voyage dans la lune)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.- Offenbach - Overtures & Ballets.
- Philips.
- 003.
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Edward Elgar
Chanson de matin
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Sony.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
July, from Das Jahr (The Year)
Performer: Lauma Skride.- SONY.
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Jean Sibelius
Pelleas et Melisande (Entr'acte)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Horst Stein.- Horst Stein - The Sibelius Recordings.
- Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
- 20.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture (Suite in D major)
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
- Alia Vox.
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Henri Mulet
Rosace (Esquisses byzantines, No 3)
Performer: Anne Horsch.- Organ Works/St.Eustache Paris.
- ARTE NOVA Classics.
- 7.
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Jonathan Dove
Monkeys (A Brief History of Creation)
Choir: Hall茅 Children's Choir. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.- Jonathan Dove: A Brief History of Creation & Gaia Theory.
- NMC Recordings.
- 112.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major, K.417 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Margaret Bonds
Montgomery Variations
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.- African American Voices II.
- Linn Records.
- 1-7.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata in G major, Kk.260
Performer: Lucas Debargue.- Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas.
- Sony Classical.
- 8.
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Maurice Ravel
L'Aurore
Singer: Mathys Lagier. Choir: Chorus of the Loire Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅. Orchestra: Loire Philharmonic Orchestra.- Ravel: Cantates pour le Prix de Rome.
- BIS.
- 201.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt, Allegro molto)
Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.- Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 8: London Classical Players/Norrington.
- Virgin Veritas.
- 4.
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Geraldine Green
Nocturne for flute and piano
Performer: Gary Woolf. Performer: Sebastian Kurz.- Green Island.
- ENCORA.
- 3.
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George Frideric Handel
Placa l'alma (Alessandro, HWV21)
Performer: London Early Opera. Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.- Handel's Queens.
- Signum Classics.
- 012.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Waltz (Maxim Suite, Op 50a)
Music Arranger: Lev Atovmian. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.- The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich Volume 1.
- CHANDOS.
- 4.
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- Mon 15 Jul 2024 09:30成人快手 Radio 3