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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five characteristic pieces of music for the guitar.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 8 Apr 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    12 Studies for guitar; no. 1 in E minor

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus HWV.232 (opening chorus)

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • Alpha.
  • György Ligeti

    L'escalier du diable

    Performer: Danny Driver.
    • Hyperion.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1 Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major D.471

    Ensemble: Trio Zimmermann.
    • Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart’s Divertimento.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Dances of Galanta

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Sept Papillons (no.2)

    Performer: Anssi Karttunen.
    • ONDINE.
  • Louis‐Nicolas Clérambault

    Simphonia V [chaconne] in D major

    Ensemble: Les Boréades de Montréal.
    • Journey.
    • Atma Classique.
    • 13.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 - Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op.79

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Ensemble: Orsino Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job: Scene II; Satan's Dance of Triumph

    Performer: David Adams. Performer: Darius Battiwalla. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel/Job.
    • Halle.
    • 12.
  • Miles Davis

    'Nuit sur les Champes Elysées' (take 3), from Lift to the Scaffold

    Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: René Urtreger. Performer: Pierre Michelot. Performer: Kenny Clarke.
    • FONTANA.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Toccata in D minor Op.11

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko.
    • Hyperion.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Sonata in G minor B.g5 (Devil's trill) for violin and continuo (conclusion)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.
  • George Gershwin

    Stairway to Paradise (George White's Scandals)

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.
  • Henri Büsser

    Appassionato Op.34

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.
    • HYPERION.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major, G. 448: III. Grave assai - Fandango

    Performer: Johan Löfving. Performer: Nanako Aramaki. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 10.
  • An-Lun Huang

    Dream of Dunhuang, Op. 29 (Version for Piano) [Excerpts]: Feather Men

    Performer: Xing Rong.
    • An-lun Huang: Piano Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 201.
  • 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.
  • Herbert Howells

    Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 21: II. Lento, molto tranquillo

    Performer: David Adams. Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Howells: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 302.
  • Anon.

    Benedicta es caelorum

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in F major, H XVIII 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Romeo og Juliet Op.18

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works Vol. 1: Thorsen / BPO / Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

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