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Celebrating classical greats

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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 Mar 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana - symphonic suite Op.53a)

    Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • Prospero.
  • William Byrd

    Emendemus in melius for 5 voices

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 60 in C major, 'Il Distratto' (5th & 6th mvts)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Danse macabre vers. for violin and piano

    Performer: Laurent Korcia. Performer: Michael Wendeberg.
    • Laurent Korcia: Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 119.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concerto in D Major TWV.51:D7

    Performer: Niklas Eklund. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble. Conductor: Nils‐Erik Sparf.
    • Baroque Trumpet (The Art Of The), Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1-4.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Quand la nuit n'est pas étoilée

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Susan Graham.
    • Reynaldo Hahn: La Belle Epoque: Graham/Vignoles.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 013.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Symphonic Dances.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    Suite in G major Z.770

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • Schumann: Piano Quintet/Quartet: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • ASV.
    • 4.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in E minor, RV 484

    Performer: Klaus Thunemann. Orchestra: I Musici.
    • Philips.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Elizabeth Kenny. Director: Steven Devine.
    • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas.
    • Chandos.
    • 30.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op 129, 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.
    • EMI.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Forgotten Dreams

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • NAXOS.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Divertissement

    Conductor: Jean Martinon. Orchestra: Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris.
    • Ibert: Divertissement / Bizet: Jeux D'Enfants - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, M.
    • Decca.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Héctor Ulises Passarella. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bacalov: Misa Tango: Domingo, Martinez, Bacalov, Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in C major for piano duet, K 521 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano Duet: Justus Frantz, Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Cecilia Tyrrell

    Wayfarer

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Chaconne of the Scaramouches)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre Du Roi Soleil: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Sa.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Wind

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation on Bach's first prelude, 'Ave Maria'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Traditional English

    The Taylor and the Mouse

    Singer: Malena Ernman. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • ERATO.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Solent

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • The Solent.
    • Albion.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio sonata in G minor HWV.393 'Dresden no.2' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Blut - waltz Op.354

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Jack Rothstein. Conductor: Jack Rothstein.
    • By The Beautiful Blue Danube: The Johann Strauss Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

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  • Mon 31 Mar 2025 09:30

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