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The very best of classical music

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.

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.

1200 鈥25 for 25: Sounds of the Century鈥 鈥 a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

1230 Album of the Week

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Thu 30 Jan 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 (No 1, Strathspey)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Anna Bon di Venezia

    Flute Sonata No. 6 in G

    Performer: Vladimir Soares. Performer: Fabian Grosch.
    • Anna Bon: Sonatas para Flauta Op. 1.
    • Tratore.
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Robert Russell Bennett

    Schottische (Suite of Old American Dances)

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Cathedrale engloutie (Preludes)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • Decca.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Concerto in B flat - 3rd mvt: Allegro

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Orchestra: Neubrandenburger Philharmonie. Conductor: Sebastian Tewinkel.
    • Capriccio.
  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (The City)

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • CBS.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Folias echa para mi Senora Dona Tarelilla de Carallenos

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 7.
  • Agatha Backer-Grondahl

    Sildig (Op.17 No.7)

    Performer: Anne Le Bozec. Singer: Karen Vourc'h.
    • Agathe Backer Gr酶ndahl: Songs & Piano Works.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 14.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sadko Op.5

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Discover Rimsky-Korsakov.
    • Basilica Music.
    • 14.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words, Op 30 No 6

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Serenade for Violin and Orchestra in G minor, Op.69 No.2 (Lento assai)

    Performer: Julian Rachlin. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Alan Stivell

    Ys

    Performer: Alan Stivell.
    • Renaissance Of The Celtic Harp.
    • [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue.
    • 1.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Puisqu'on ne peut (Le Roi d'Ys)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Ensemble: Bavarian State Orchestra. Director: Bertrand de Billy.
    • L'Opera Kaufmann.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Old Castle (Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 14.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    La catedral (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • ERATO.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • A Baroque Feast (Extended).
    • Analekta.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Genoveva (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Trad.

    Shenandoah

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott. Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw.
    • Songs of Comfort and Hope.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    Octet in D (Finale)

    Performer: Florian Donderer. Performer: Hanna Weinmeister. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Byol Kang. Performer: Gergana Gergova. Performer: Alban Gerhardt.
    • Gli猫re, Shostakovich & Hahn.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 4.
  • Anna Clyne

    The Eye

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    With the Wild Geese

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.
    • Naxos.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)

    Performer: Paco de Luc铆a. Orchestra: Orquestra de Cadaqu茅s. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: David Fray. Music Arranger: Gy枚rgy Kurt谩g.
    • Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Siege of Corinth (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major, RV 572, 'Il Protea 貌 sia il modo al rovescio'

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Neil McLaren. Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: James Eastaway. Performer: Margaret Faultless. Performer: David Watkin. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
    • LINN.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PentaTone classics.

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Jan 2025 09:30

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