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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0915 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.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five – the first of this week's essential pizzicato pieces.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 9 Aug 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    La rencontre imprévue (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Ensemble: Sarband.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Scott Joplin

    Elite Syncopations

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Joplin: Piano Rags: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale Op.31

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 05.
  • Constant Lambert

    The Rio Grande

    Singer: Sally Burgess. Performer: Jack Gibbons. Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament; The Rio Grande.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Paul McCartney

    Blackbird

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Béla Bartók

    Divertimento Sz.113 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: c/o chamber orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Francesco Barsanti

    Concerto grosso in C major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • Edinburgh 1742 - Barsanti & Handel, Parte Seconda.
    • LINN.
    • 1-4.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo, Music for Piano.
    • NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
    • 20.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi - Overtures and Preludes: Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    L'heure exquise

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • La Belle Epoque - The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn: Susan Graham.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.
  • Gustav Holst

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G minor K.478 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • Mozart, Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets.
    • Orfeo.
    • 103.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Proud Thames

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Maconchy: Serenata Concertante; Symphony for Double String Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.
    • 1.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Thomas Arne

    Thou soft-flowing Avon

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Arne: Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens: Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
  • William Walton

    Sinfonia Concertante (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • RCA.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Geliebter Aufenthalt, beliebte Stille (1st mvt)

    Singer: Magdalena Podkościelna. Singer: Andreas Post. Singer: Matthias Vieweg. Singer: Ekkehard Abele. Ensemble: Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein. Conductor: Ludger Rémy.
    • CPO.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple symphony Op.4 (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Mille regretz

    Ensemble: Taracea.
    • ALPHA.
  • Joseph Holbrooke

    Eilean Shona

    Performer: Robert Plane. Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Mia Cooper. Performer: David Adams. Performer: Alice Neary.
    • Holbrooke: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • CPO.
    • 8.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 8.
  • Rued Langgaard

    Three Songs: No 1 Enchanting Music

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Tamás Vető.
    • DACAPO.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op.57

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Mallorca - barcarola Op.202

    Music Arranger: Katona Twins. Performer: Katona Twins.
    • Katona Twins - Albeniz.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, Op.15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nelson Freire. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

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