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A feast of great music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

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Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata no.5 in F major Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx Classics.

  • Jan Koetsier

    Brass Symphony Op.80 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: tenThing.
    • 10.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 115.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite (Nocturne)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 18.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.53 in D major 'L'impériale' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Signum.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Valencia for string quartet

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Orange.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Ensemble: Orsino Ensemble.
    • Chandos.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Spring Song, Op. 16

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Pictures from Finland.
    • Ondine.
    • 12.

  • Aaron Copland

    The Boatmen's Dance (Old American Songs, Set 1)

    Singer: Willard White. Performer: Graeme McNaught.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon No.6

    Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • DELOS.

  • Anton Webern

    Im Sommerwind

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25 (Classical) arr. 2 pianos (4th mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Yefim Bronfman. Music Arranger: Rikuya Terashima.
    • Music for Two Pianos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 36.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV 156

    Performer: Midori Seiler. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Vivaldi: Double Concertos: Academie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Hugo AlfvĂ©n

    Symphony No. 3 in E Major, Op. 23: III. Presto

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • CPO.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Pineapple Poll (Opening Dance)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Sullivan: Pineapple Poll etc: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Delius

    By the River (Florida Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Essential Delius - Various.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Signum.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Grand March (The Love for Three Oranges)

    Music Arranger: TamĂĄs Batiashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick NĂ©zet‐SĂ©guin.
    • Visions of Prokofiev.
    • DG.
    • 9.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • DECCA.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Performer: Nardo Poy. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Arvo PĂ€rt

    Mozart-Adagio

    Performer: Patrick Messina. Performer: Henri Demarquette. Performer: Fabrizio Chiovetta.
    • RÀÀts, PĂ€rt, Gorecki: Kaleidoscopic.
    • ŽĄ±èČč°ùłÙĂ©.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.38 in D major K.504 'Prague' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charle.
    • Linn.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major, BWV 1066

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • Christian Sinding

    Suite im alten Stil, Op. 10: II. Adagio

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Nordic Rhapsody.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Many are the wonders.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 3

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • The Vienna Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.

  • Claude Debussy

    La boite a joujoux [The Toy Box]: The Toy Shop

    Music Arranger: André Caplet. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • SEATTLESYMPHONY.

  • François Couperin

    Le Gaillard-Boiteux (PiĂšces de clavecin, Ordre No 18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • JoaquĂ­n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (3rd mvt)

    Performer: MiloĆĄ Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NĂ©zet‐SĂ©guin.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

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