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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is pianist Hélène Grimaud. With Georgia Mann.

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 Performers – this week we focus on Hélène Grimaud.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 21 Mar 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Aaron Copland

    Saturday Night Waltz (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Aaron Copland.
    • Chandos.
    • 020.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Sonata in A minor Op.7 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira no.5)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet E flat major Op.16 for piano and wind (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Dialoghi.
    • Mozart & Beethoven: Quintets for piano and winds.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.
  • Anna Clyne

    Masquerade

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: Mythologies.
    • Avie.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rondo in G minor Op.94

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • Alisa Weilerstein - Dvorak.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Franz von Suppé

    Poet and Peasant (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2021 / New Year's Concert 2021 / Concert du Nouvel An 2021 (Digi.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Red Clay & Mississippi Delta

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • eOne.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Come in quest'ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra)

    Singer: Sonya Yoncheva. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Massimo Zanetti.
    • The Verdi Album.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major RV.428, 'Il gardellino'

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos: Lisa Beznosiuk/English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10-12.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Burt Bacharach

    South American Getaway (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)

    Music Arranger: Valter Dešpalj. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • Consuelo Velázquez

    Besame mucho

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Los Pajaros Perdidos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 120.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Néstor Marconi. Performer: Antonio Agri. Performer: Horacio Malvicino. Performer: Leonardo Marconi. Singer: Héctor Console.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E Flat Major Op.40 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Anonymous

    Matais de incêndios

    Singer: Martha McLorinan. Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Brazilian Adventures.
    • Hyperion Records.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K.488 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hélène Grimaud. Performer: Radoslaw Szulc. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Helene Grimaud.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • John Wilbye

    The Lady Oriana for 6 voices [from "The triumphs of Oriana", 1601]

    Performer: David Miller. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Serenity [O magnum mysterium]

    Performer: Matthew Sharp. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Decca.
  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major BWV.1050 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse. Performer: Andrew Harley. Performer: Mary Ashley Barret. Performer: Michael Burns. Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Lynn Huntzinger Beck.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 12.

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