
Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
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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Jeremiah Clarke
Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'
Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- Sony.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major K.595 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.- Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27.
- Warner Classics.
- 106.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Lyrical Waltz (Dances of the Dolls)
Orchestrator: Tamás Batiashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.- Echoes of Time: Lisa Batiashvili/Symphonieorchester des Beyerischen Rundfunks.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 6.
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James M. Stephenson
Colors (Green)
Performer: John Bruce Yeh. Performer: Alex Klein. Ensemble: Chicago Pro Musica.- Liquid Melancholy: Clarinet Music of James M Stephenson.
- Cedille.
- 203.
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Frédéric Chopin
Introduction and polonaise in C major Op.3
Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster.- Themes and Variations.
- Orchid Classics.
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Julie Cooper
Dream (Contemplation Suite)
Singer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Camilla Pay. Performer: Justin Pearson. Performer: Justin Pearson. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.- Julie Cooper: Continuum.
- Signum Classics.
- 501.
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Gustav Holst
Cotswold Symphony H.47 (3rd mvt; Scherzo)
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Christian Sinding
The Rustle of Spring (6 Pieces Op.32)
Performer: Philip Martin.- The Maiden's Prayer: Piano Music from the 19th-Century Salon.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.- A Second of Silence.
- Ancalagon LLC.
- 8.
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Elfrida Andrée
String Quartet in D minor (1st mvt)
Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.- Caprice.
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Henry Purcell
Rondeau (Abdelazer)
Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.- Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
- Hyperion.
- 11.
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Henry Purcell
Ground in C minor Z.T681
Performer: Jeremy Denk.- C.1300 - C.2000.
- Nonesuch.
- 10.
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Gaspar Sanz
Tarantella (Instrucción de musica sobre la guitara española)
Performer: Xavier Díaz-Latorre. Performer: Pedro Estevan.- La Guitarra dels Lleons.
- CANTUS.
- 6.
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Richard Strauss
Duett-concertino AV.147 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Stepan Turnovsky. Orchestra: Academy of London. Conductor: Richard Stamp.- Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude to Capriccio – Copland: Clarinet Concerto, App.
- Signum Classics.
- 103.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Vagabond (Songs of Travel)
Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.- Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
- Hyperion.
- 12.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Les vêpres siciliennes (Act 3, Sc 2: Ballet, 'Spring')
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.- Verdi: Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music, Vol. 3.
- CHANDOS.
- 5.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Kommt, ihr Töchter (St Matthew Passion BWV.244)
Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Choir: Vienna Boys' Choir. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Bach: St Matthew Passion: Harnoncourt.
- Teldec.
- 1.
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Thomas Dunhill
The cloths of heaven
Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Sholto Kynoch.- ѿý recording.
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Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Performer: VOCES8. -
Robert Schumann
Träumerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.- Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
- HYPERION.
- 26.
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Elena Kats‐Chernin
Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)
Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.- Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans.
- ABC.
- 2.
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Léo Delibes
Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Famous Ballet Music.
- Brilliant Classics.
- 11.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Valse nonchalante Op.110
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Erato.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Recessit pastor noster
Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.- Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.
- CORO.
- 13.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concerto a 5 in F major Op.9`3
Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.- Chaconne.
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Emily Lim
The Sun, Unafraid to Shine
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.- ѿý recording.
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Claude Debussy
Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's corner)
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.- Childhood Tales.
- Decca.
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Jean-Baptiste Singelée
Grand Quatour Concertant, Op.79
Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.- FLUX.
- Chandos.
- 001.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26
Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- BIS.
Broadcast
- Mon 25 Mar 2024 09:00ѿý Radio 3