
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.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)
Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras.
- Decca.
- 12.
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Stephan Koncz
A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]
Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.- The Golden Age.
- DECCA.
- 1.
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Do You Hear Us In Heaven
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- harmonia mundi.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Kevin Puts
Marimba concerto (1st mvt)
Performer: Ji Su Jung. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Kevin Puts: Marimba Concerto, The City & Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight".
- Naxos.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Im Abendrot D.799
Music Arranger: Not credited. Performer: Aaron Pilsan. Performer: Kian Soltani. Performer: Aaron Pilsan.- Schubert: Im Abendrot, D. 799 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments).
- DG.
- 1.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
- 304.
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George Gershwin
They Can't Take That Away from Me; Graceful and Elegant
Music Arranger: Tedd Firth. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Gershwin Rhapsody.
- Decca.
- 10.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (4th mvt)
Music Arranger: Shai Wosner. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.- Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke".
- Sony Classical.
- 4.
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Arturo Márquez
Conga del fuego nuevo
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 12.
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Jocelyn Pook
How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.- Decca.
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Florence Price
Violin Concerto no.1 in D Major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 6.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Partita no.4 in D major BWV.828 (Ouverture)
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Dances.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 1.
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Claude Debussy
Sirènes (Nocturnes)
Choir: Women's Voices of the Collegium Musicum Amstelodamense. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in B Minor RV.580
Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor, RV 580 (Adapt. for 4 Mandolins, Strings and Contin.
- DG.
- 1.
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Arthur Sullivan
The Long Day Closes
Ensemble: The King’s Singers.- Romance Du Soir.
- Signum Classics.
- 19.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words in E flat major Op.38 no.1
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 13.
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Jackie Oates
Waiting for the Lark
Singer: Jackie Oates.- ECC.
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Robert Schumann
Abendlied Op.85 no.12
Music Arranger: Oskar Merikanto. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Alfred Brendel.- Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Jean‐Marie Leclair
Violin Concerto in C major, Op 7 No 3 (3rd mvt, Allegro assai)
Performer: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.- J. M. Leclair, Violin Concertos.
- Glossa.
- 003.
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Giacomo Puccini
E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)
Singer: Jonathan Tetelman. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.- The Great Puccini.
- DG.
- 8.
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Henri Vieuxtemps
Souvenir d'Amerique, Variations on "Yankee Doodle", Op. 17
Performer: Esther Yoo. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Barber, Bruch.
- Universal Music Ltd..
- 8.
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William Byrd
The Bells
Performer: Michele Pasotti. Performer: Flora Papadopoulos. Ensemble: Il Caleidoscopio Ensemble.- Lawes: New Old Albion.
- Brilliant Classics.
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Marie Jaëll
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Debora Waldman.- Marie Jaëll: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor: II. Adagio.
- NoMadMusic.
- 101.
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Henry Purcell
Sound the Trumpet (Come Ye Sons of Art)
Music Arranger: A. Ostrander. Performer: Hannes Läubin. Performer: Wolfgang Läubin. Performer: Bernhard Läubin. Performer: Simon Preston.- Läubin / Preston - Awake the trumpets lofty sound.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 16.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in G minor K.478 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Federico Colli. Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Laura van der Heijden.- CHANDOS.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony no.3 in C major Op.52 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.- Sibelius: Complete Symphonies.
- Decca.
- 9.
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