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Essential Classics to boost your brain

Georgia Mann with an hour of scintillating music to help get your grey cells working, including works by some of the greatest musical geniuses, such as Mozart鈥檚 Symphony No 40, Haydn鈥檚 Cello Concerto in D and Bach鈥檚 invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 40 in G minor K.550 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.

  • Franz Liszt

    Ode to Joy (from Symphony no.9 transcribed for piano)

    Performer: Igor Levit. Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven.
    • Sony.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2: 3rd movement; Rondo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Nocturne in G minor for piano

    Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Mirare.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces.
    • DG.
    • 3.

  • Judith Weir

    El rey de Francia

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble of London.
    • NMC.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op 77 (4th mvt. La tarantelle fretillante)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Robert Woolley. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op.6.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 021.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Bor茅ades)

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Orchestrator: Jim Gray. Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Barricades Mysterieuses

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