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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.

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Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan i Lyudmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bernard Haitink - A Portrait.
    • DECCA.
    • 79.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV 1060 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn Records : CKD519.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Judith Bingham

    The darkness is no darkness

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 9 in B flat major, 3rd movement; Rondo (Allegro)

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1, etc.: Jacqueline du Pre.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-tableaux Op.33 for piano: no.3 in C minor

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Henry Mancini

    Days of wine and roses

    Orchestra: Richard Armstrong. Conductor: Richard Hayman.
    • The music of Henry Mancini: Richard Hayman and his orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • DECCA.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major Op.38: 3rd mvt; Scherzo vivace

    Ensemble: Minerva Chamber Ensemble.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Adelita

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Love bade me welcome (5 Mystical Songs)

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • The English Song Series 3.
    • NAXOS.
    • 14.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no. 3 in E flat, K.447 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Antonio M茅ndez Padr贸n.
    • Mozart y Mambo.
    • Alpha.
  • Elmer Bernstein

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Performer: Sebastian Knauer. Performer: Vojtech Drnek. Music Arranger: David Newman. Conductor: David Newman. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • WARNER.
  • Henry Mancini

    Days of wine and roses

    Orchestra: Richard Armstrong. Conductor: Richard Hayman.
    • The music of Henry Mancini: Richard Hayman and his orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo No. 14 in D Major C. 113 "The Assumption of Mary'

    Ensemble: Sonnerie.
    • Biber: The Mystery Sonatas for Violin (Scordatura) and Continuo, Vol.2.
    • Gaudeamus.
    • 5.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    脡tude de concert, Op 35 No 2, 'Automne'

    Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • John Taverner

    Missa Corona Spinea - Sanctus

    Composer: Tallis Scholars. Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimmel.
  • William Lawes

    Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

    Singer: Rebecca Outram. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: Robert Macdonald.
    • Songs By Henry And William Lawes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a wild rose (Woodland Sketches Op.51)

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Emma Johnson - Encores.
    • ASV.
    • 7.
  • David Raksin

    Theme from 'Laura'

    Performer: Andy Wood. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Hollywood Soundstage.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Marie Ja毛ll

    Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: C茅lia Oneto Bensaid. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Debora Waldman.
    • Marie Ja毛ll: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor: II. Adagio.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 101.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • McCreesh: Silence & Music.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Fandango (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Pines of Rome

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    A茂da, Act 1: "Se quel guerrier io fossi... Celeste Aida"

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verdi: Aida.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    • Merci.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 803.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A major, Op 119 No 4

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 38.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

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