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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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 – our second top tarantella of the week.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 21 Sep 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Trent'Anni A Roma.
    • Naive.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue in C sharp minor BWV.849

    Music Arranger: Peter Maxwell Davies. Ensemble: The Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Renaissance & Baroque Realisations.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 5.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Quintet Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Cigleris. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: John Mills. Performer: Lydia Lowndes-Northcott. Performer: Božidar Vukotić.
    • Gipps: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 303.
  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the leaf - elegy in D minor Op.20

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Joaquim Malats

    Serenata Española

    Music Arranger: Christoph Denoth. Performer: Christoph Denoth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Nocturnos de Andalucía.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Valse-caprice no.1 in A major Op.30

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • HYPERION.
  • Michael Abels

    Winged Creatures

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Allen Tinkham.
    • Winged Creatures.
    • Cedille.
    • 101.
  • Michael Tippett

    Steal away (5 Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • a la Gloire de Dieu: The Sixteen.
    • Coro.
    • 6.
  • Pancho Vladigerov

    Traumspielsuite (Schwedischer Tanz)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Horia Andreescu.
    • Vladigerov: Bulgarian Rhapsody, Traumspielsuite & 7 Symphonic Bulgarian Dances.
    • CPO.
    • 204.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • An American In Paris: Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 5.
  • Sir George Dyson

    The Seekers (3 Songs of Courage)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Sea Fever.
    • Dutton.
    • 13.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor RV.407 for cello and orchestra

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Ensemble: L’Onda Armonica.
    • NAIVE.
  • Martin Peerson

    The Fall of the Leafe

    Performer: Skip Sempé.
    • The Virgin Harpsichord.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 3.
  • Peter Warlock

    Autumn Twilight

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Songs by Peter Warlock.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feuilles mortes (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Richard Strauss

    4 Last Songs (September)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Toccata in C sharp minor

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing HWV.261

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel: Coronation Anthems: Choir of King's college, Cleobury.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle in A minor Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Harri Mäki. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Variations

    Ensemble: The Fairey Band. Conductor: Bryan Hurdley.
    • Brass from the Masters, Vol. 1: Williams Fairey Band/Hurdley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto no.1 in E major for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque / Bychk.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Derek Bermel

    Gliding over Algiers (Murmurations)

    Orchestra: River Oaks Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • INNOVA.
  • Anonymous

    Der makam-i Uzzai usules Devr-i kebir

    Music Arranger: Dimitri Cantemir. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Dimitrie Cantemir, Istanbul "The Book of the Science of Music...": Hesperion XXI.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Much Ado About Nothing - overture Op.164

    Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Overtures 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

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  • Tue 21 Sep 2021 09:00

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