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A feast of great music

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

Last on

Thu 11 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne Op.40 'In London Town'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • First Hand Records.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Missa brevis: Agnus Dei

    Performer: Andrew Reid. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • Kodály & Janáček: Masses.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • György Ligeti

    BaladÄ Ĺži Joc [Ballade and Dance]

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Suyeon Kang.
    • ALPHA.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Songs of the Clown: For the rain, it raineth every day

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: William Dazeley.
    • Korngold, E.W.: Songs (Sonnett Fur Wien).
    • Signum Classics.
    • 705.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance

    Music Arranger: Ruben Asatryan. Ensemble: Z.E.N. Trio.
    • Burning through the cold.
    • DG.
    • 8.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Tchaikovsky / Khachaturian: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    3 Morceaux: No 3 Humoresque

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 11.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgĂĄrds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in A minor for recorder and viola da gamba (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 17.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Montparnasse

    Performer: Pascal Rogé. Singer: Felicity Lott.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 9 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Mahler Academy Orchestra. Conductor: Philipp von Steinaecker.
    • ALPHA.
  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in C minor Op.48 no.1

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.
  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Chiller: Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E Flat, BWV 552 'St Anne': Fugue

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Bach, J.S.: Toccata and Fugue BWV 565; Organ Works BWV 572, 590, 532, 769 & 552.
    • DG.
    • 18.
  • Nacio Herb Brown

    Singin' in the Rain

    Singer: Gene Kelly.
    • EMI.
  • Judith Weir

    The Welcome arrival of rain for orchestra

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.
  • Joseph Shabalala

    Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain

    Ensemble: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • Shaka Zulu.
    • Warner Records.
    • 9.
  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A Minor, RV 422

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Cappella Gabetta. Conductor: Andrés Gabetta.
    • Il Progetto Vivaldi 3.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Dominique Phinot

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: The Brabant Ensemble. Conductor: Stephen Rice.
    • Phinot: Missa Si bona suscepimus & Other Sacred Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Paride ed Elena (Act 1: Ballo No 3)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 1 in D Minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos.
    • WARNER.
    • 1.
  • John Williams

    Superman (Main theme)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Rhino.
  • Antonia Bembo

    Habbi pietĂ  di me

    Singer: Céline Scheen. Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Wonder Women.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • George Walker

    Concerto for trombone and orchestra: 3rd mvt; Allegro

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Four Pieces Op. 81 - II: Scherzo in A minor

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • ERATO.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    In monte Oliveti Ă  6

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Passion and Resurrection: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • BĂ©la BartĂłk

    Concerto for Orchestra (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • BartĂłk: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Jul 2024 09:30

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