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Celebrating classical greats

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 – 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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.
    • Percy Grainger: Famous Folk Songs: Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Armed Forces Staff Band.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 2.
  • Ysaye M. Barnwell

    Wanting Memories

    Choir: Cantus.
    • Cantus: Lockdown Sessions.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1401.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia for Strings in G major, RV 149

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Sheherazade)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Hilary Kleinig

    Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)

    Ensemble: Muses Trio.
    • Women of Note Vol. 4.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (1st mvt, Allegro maestoso)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Scaramella va alla guerra

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Erasme - Eloge de la folie (Version française).
    • Alia Vox.
    • 60.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour

    Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Aux Ă©toiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (1st mvt, Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Gerald Finzi

    At a lunar eclipse

    Performer: Clifford Benson. Singer: Martyn Hill.
    • Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain & Other Settings of Thomas Hardy.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    L'Amant anonyme (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TMK.
  • Hilary Kleinig

    Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)

    Ensemble: Muses Trio.
    • Women of Note Vol. 4.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 13.
  • Elena Katsâ€Chernin

    Sunshine Journal (No 1, Allegro)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Performer: Elena Katsâ€Chernin.
    • Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 29.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 2 (Allegretto grazioso)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Edvard Grieg : Symphony, Symphonic Dances.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings in D minor, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan Čičić. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Amy Beach

    Symphony in E minor, Op 32, 'Gaelic' (3rd mvmt, Lento con molto espressione)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Barber: Symphony No. 1, School for Scandal Overture - Beach: Gaelic Symphony.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Hilary Kleinig

    Fire Storm (Fire Dances, No 5)

    Ensemble: Muses Trio.
    • Women of Note Vol. 4.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 13.
  • Katerina Gimon

    Fire

    Choir: SORA. Conductor: Birgitte Næslund Madsen.
    • Elements.
    • SORA.
    • 2.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Fire; Fire Alarms; Fireman's Chorus (The Bedbug)

    Choir: Mannheim Opera Choir. Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald.
    • Shostakovich: The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a & Love and Hate, Op. 38.
    • Naxos.
    • 7-9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    O thou, who makest thine angels - The fire (Elijah)

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Choir: ChĂłr NFM. Choir: Chetham's School of Music Chamber Choir. Choir: North East Youth Chorale. Choir: Taplow Youth Choir. Choir: Ulster Youth Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Mendelssohn: Elijah.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 119.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    FĂĽr Elise

    • Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "FĂĽr Elise".
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Thomas Linley

    The Duenna - Overture

    Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Director: Paul Nicholson.
    • HELIOS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sleeping Beauty (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Leonard Slatkin conducts Tchaikovsky Ballets.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 26.
  • Trad.

    Where were you last night so late?

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 14.
  • Tobias Picker

    Old and Lost Rivers

    Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Barber, Copland, Berstein, PIcker: American Music of the 20th Century.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    O Maria

    Singer: MarĂ­a Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Barbara Strozzi.
    • l'empreinte digitale.
    • 16.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • William Tell and other favourites: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Kunzel.
    • Telarc.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Swiss Italian Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2009.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1-3.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Hiawatha's wedding feast Op.30`1 - part 1 of Scenes from 'Hiawatha': Onaway! ...

    Singer: Arthur Davies. Orchestra: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • The Song Of Hiawatha.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Jazz Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 53 No 10

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • The Vienna Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Valborg Aulin

    Parisian Scenes (No 3, Ballroom Scene)

    Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, AndrĂ©e: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Wanderers Nachtlied, D 768

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • An die Musik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Shakespeare Festival March

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

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  • Tue 2 Jul 2024 09:30

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