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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

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Music Played

  • Gabriel FaurĂ©

    Requiem Op.48 for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra; In Paradisum

    Performer: John Scott. Choir: Corydon Singers. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Hyperion.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une Barque sur lŽocéan (Miroirs)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Ravel: Miroirs, La Valse - Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka, L'Oiseau de f.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • LeĂł Weiner

    Serenade for small orchestra, Op 3 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Solti - BartĂłk.
    • DECCA.
    • 21.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado (Spanish Dances Op.23)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.
    • 11.
  • Martin Peerson

    The Fall of the Leafe

    Performer: Skip Sempé.
    • The Virgin Harpsichord.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 trumpets and orchestra RV.537 in C major: 1st mvt

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Sony.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalila-Symphonie (Final)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Performer: Harada Takashi. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet no.2 in G major Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in E flat major Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Havanaise

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Love for Three Oranges: March

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Sandra Rivers.
    • EMI.
  • Jan VĂĄclav Hugo Voƙíơek

    Symphony in D Major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Voƙíơek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse Impromptu S.213

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Horizons - A Personnal Collection of Piano Encores.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G major Op.6`1

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah: "Lift thine eyes... He watching over Israel slumbers not nor sleeps"

    Choir: The Guildhall Singers. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Tchaikovsky 4 - Francesca da Rimini / Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
    • 4.
  • William Byrd

    Browning (The Leaves Be Green)

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Tom & Will – Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 118.
  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the Leaf, Op 20

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.
  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sigfrid Karg‐Elert

    Triumphal March: Nun Danket alle Gott

    Performer: Hans Fagius.
    • BIS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522: IV. Presto

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • James MacMillan

    In splendoribus sanctorum

    Performer: Mark O'Keeffe. Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.
    • LINN.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op.96

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl.
    • EMI.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvĂĄn Fischer.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 4.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op.34 No.14

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff - Symphony No.3 Vocalise The Isle of the Dead.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Rune Tonsgaard SĂžrensen

    Once a shoemaker

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    L'Amant anonyme (Ballet Music No 6)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TAFELMUSIK.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Largo from Trio Sonata No 5, BWV 529 (transc. Samuil Feinberg)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Bach Piano Transcriptions 4.
    • Hyperion.
    • 003.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Charles Ives

    Symphony No. 2 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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