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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 – 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

Last on

Wed 10 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata [F.A.E.] (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Decca.
  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K.511

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • ±·ŽĄĂłŐ·Ą.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Trio Sonata no.2 in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Aura Musicale. Director: Balåzs Måté.
    • CHR. W. Gluck The Seven Trio Sonatas Aura Musicale.
    • Hungaroton Classic.
    • 5.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Cow Call (2 Nordic melodies Op.63)

    Music Arranger: Jarle StorlĂžkken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria.
    • Seraph.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 11.
  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of spring Op.32 no.3

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Norwegian Classical Favourites: Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Engeset.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Op.131

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo JĂ€rvi.
    • ONDINE.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Chants d'Auvergne - set 3 (Passo del Prat)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor Op.37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos: Perahia/Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Haitink.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in G major Op.3`5

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Five Melodies for Piano Trio: Sometimes I feel like a motherless Child

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • The Best ±«Óătv Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • Imogen Holst

    Phantasy Quartet

    Performer: Simon Hewitt Jones. Performer: David Worswick. Performer: Tom Hankey. Performer: Oliver Coates.
    • Court Lane Music.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • BĂĄlint Bakfark

    Czarna Krowa

    Ensemble: Ensemble MORGAINE.
    • Evening Song / PieƛƄ Wieczorna / Giesmė Vakarinė.
    • Ayros.
    • 10.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Tango des Fratellini (Le BƓuf sur le Toit)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Le Boeuf sur le toit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 119.
  • Trad.

    Sekstur from Vendsyssel; The Peat Dance

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String quintet in E major Op.11 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Smithsonian Chamber Players.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets Op.11, Nos. 4-6.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • SONY.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Adagio (after the 2nd mvt of Bach's Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974)

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • Bach and Beyond.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Performer: Clemens Flick.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 22-23.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Tapiola, Op. 112

    Conductor: Klaus MÀkelÀ. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon.
    • Spheres: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Francesca Campana

    È già rotto lo strale

    Conductor: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Wonder Women.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Variations concertantes Op.17 for cello and piano

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Themes And Variations.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Agnus Dei: Phoenix

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Beyond All Mortal Dreams: American A Capella: The Choir of Trinity College, Camb.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 Jul 2024 09:30

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