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

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

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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Last on

Tue 1 Oct 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O ignee spiritus

    Choir: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Barricades Mysterieuses

    Music Arranger: Thomas Ad猫s. Ensemble: The Composers Ensemble.
    • Ades: America: A Prophecy.
    • Warner.
    • 14.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Al Gallodoro. Performer: Lincoln Mayorga. Author: DuBose Heyward. Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Hannah Kendall

    A Winged Spirit

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Many Voices: 10 New Pieces for Violin.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 5.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Overture; Serenata; Scherzino

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for clarinet or viola, cello and piano in A minor, Op 114 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: ensemble incanto.
    • Johannes Brahms/Max Bruch.
    • EBS.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Idomeneo (Ballet music K.367)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Mozart: Symphonies 41 & 40 - Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto

    This Little Rose

    Author: Emily Dickinson. Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Performer: Nicole Panizza.
    • Emergence - Emily Dickinson.
    • Stone Records.
    • 30.
  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Ondine.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No 2 transc for piano

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus - suite)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94: IV. Allegro con brio

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Franck, Faur茅 & Prokofiev: Works for Flute & Piano.
    • BIS.
    • 304.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony in G minor, Op 6 No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballad of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst: Planets: Suite for Orchestra, Op. 32 (1916).
    • I.M.P. Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic dances - series 1 Op.46 (no.8 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • SONY.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (Suite populaire espagnole arr Kochanski)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.
    • Ravel/Falla/Schnittke/Bartok/Shankar: East meets West: Daniel Hope.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora

    Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini. Singer: Rossana Bertini. Singer: Claudio Cavina. Singer: Sandro Naglia. Singer: Giuseppe Maletto. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Singer: Daniele Carnovich.
    • Monteverdi Quinto Libro de Madrigali.
    • OPUS 111.
    • 001.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet

    Performer: Louise Williams. Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • New Year's Concert 2014.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth, TWV.55:C3 - Die Erwachende Thetis (Bourree)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance, Op.35 no.2

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Tommy Reilly. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Serenade: Tommy Reilly/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Fanny Mendelssohn: Easter Sonata: III. Scherzo. Allegretto

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Roderick Williams

    Let nothing trouble you

    Choir: Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir. Conductor: Jonathan Eyre.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Edvard Napravnik

    Notturno, Op 73 No 1, 'La reminiscence de Chopin'

    Performer: Jonathan Plowright.
    • Hommage A Chopin: Jonathan Plowright piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos.

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