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Your perfect classical playlist

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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  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Overtures: Cleveland Orchestra/Maazel.
    • I.M.P..
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes 茅tudes de Paganini, No 3 in G sharp minor)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La vall茅e des cloches (Miroirs)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.26 in E flat major K.184

    Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. Conductor: J茅r茅mie Rhorer.
    • Mozart: Symphonies 25, 26 & 29: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie/Rhorer.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Erik Satie

    Jack in the Box

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pachelbel: Canon - Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Poetry in Music - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 7.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    This is the record of John

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Mermaid's Song

    Performer: Gary Beecher. Singer: Niamh O'Sullivan.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvor谩k: Symphonies 5 & 7-9.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 305.

  • Guy Woolfenden

    Illyrian Dances

    Ensemble: Ithaca College Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Rodney Winther.
    • MARK RECORDS.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse macabre

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Performer: Luben Yordanoff. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Lovely Classique Chefs-d'oeuvre Deutsche Grammophon.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Surge, propera, amica mea

    Choir: Balthasar鈥怤eumann鈥怌hor. Ensemble: Balthasar鈥怤eumann鈥怑nsemble. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G Major, Op 76 No 1

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.

  • John Cage

    All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Joby Talbot

    The Mad Hatter's Tea Party (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.
    • Signum.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No.3 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartettsatz in C minor

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • DG.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Whitacre: Cloudburst & other choral works: Polyphony, Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D major, Op.7 No.6

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ernest Bloch

    Schelomo

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Transmission.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande valse brillante Op.18

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Chopin - Complete Waltzes (Alice Sara Ott).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 001.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Checkmate Suite, F. 2: II. Dance of the 4 Knights

    Music Arranger: Eric Ball. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Bliss: Works for Brass Band.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 127.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche slave, Op.31

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Bluebird

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Evolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasy and Fugue in C Minor BWV 537 (orch. Elgar)

    Orchestrator: Edward Elgar. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Chandos.

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