
Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning 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 pieces of music that celebrate the month of May.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Fanfare in D major
Ensemble: Innsbruck Trumpet Consort.- Teldec.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Scherzo in B flat major
Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.- Mussorgsky – Night on the Bare Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition.
- WARNER APEX.
- 20.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F major 59`1 'Rasumovsky' (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Aris Quartet.- Attacca.
- Genuin.
- 6.
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Silvestre Revueltas
The Wandering Tadpole
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maximiano Valdés.- Caramelos Latinos.
- Dorian.
- 006.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto For Cor Anglais (on Cantata BWV.54)
Music Arranger: Andreas Tarkmann. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: The English Concert.- Decca.
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Dana Suesse
Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.- Jazz Nocturne.
- Naxos.
- 009.
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Sergey Taneyev
12 Choruses Op.27; No 7, Suddenly a music sounded from eternity
Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste.- GLOBE.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Mandolin, Hammered Dulcimer, Harp and Continuo in F Major TWV 53:F1
Music Arranger: Peter Huth. Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music.- Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
- harmonia mundi.
- 501.
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Dace Aperāne
Merely Sun (2 Fantasies)
Ensemble: Riga Saxophone Quartet. Performer: Herta Hansena.- Saule Tikai (Merely Sun).
- Skani.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The sun has set Op.73 no.4
Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- DG.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony no.1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Schumann - The Symphonies.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 003.
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Maurice Ravel
Kaddisch (from 2 Melodies hebraiques)
Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Ave Maria.
- Warner Classics.
- 4.
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Gerald Resch
String Quartet no.3 'Attacca' (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Aris Quartet.- Attacca.
- Genuin.
- 2.
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Jean‐Féry Rebel
Le chaos (Les élémens)
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- Rebel: Die Elemente; Gluck: Alessandro.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 1.
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Robert Farnon
Jumping Bean
Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- British Light Music Classics.
- Hyperion.
- 4.
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John Dowland
The Frog Galliard
Performer: Paul O’Dette.- My Favourite Dowland.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 008.
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John Lanchbery
Mrs Tiggy-winkle's Laundry; The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher (Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- Tales Of Beatrix Potter.
- EMI.
- 3, 5, 6.
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Francis Poulenc
La grenouillere Op.5
Singer: Alice Coote. Performer: Graham Johnson.- L'Heure Exquise.
- Hyperion.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Orage (Platée)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
- Archiv.
- 9.
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Peteris Vasks
Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' (Andante II)
Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.- Pēteris Vasks: Distant Light, Piano Quartet & Summer Dances.
- BIS.
- 8.
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Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite (Polka)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.- Warner Classics.
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Thomas Morley
Now is the month of maying
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.- Collegium.
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Philip Glass
String Quartet no.3 'Mishima' (6th mvt)
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.- Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass.
- Nonesuch.
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Meredith Monk
Ellis Island
Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Bruce Brubaker.- ECM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Rondo in C minor K.617
Music Arranger: Michael Hasel. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.- Mozart/Beethoven: Quintets: Hough, BPWQ.
- Bis.
- 5.
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Michael Abels
Global Warming
Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.- African Heritage Symphonic Series volume III.
- Cedille Records.
- 1.
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Cyril Rootham
Violin sonata in G minor Op.75 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jacqueline Roche. Performer: Robert Stevenson.- Dutton Epoch.
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Joseph Haydn
Te Deum in C major H.23c.2
Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- Haydn: Nelson Mass, Te Deum: The English Concert, Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 12-14.
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Isaac Albéniz
Torre Bermeja [Serenata] Op.92 no.12
Performer: Pablo Villegas.- Soul of Spanish Guitar.
- Sony Classical.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Wedding-Cake - Caprice-Waltz in A flat major Op.76
Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS : CHSA 5162.
- CHANDOS.
- 20.
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