
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.
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Music Played
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George Frideric Handel
The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)
Performer: Sophie Yates.- La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
- Chandos.
- 10.
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Aaron Copland
Saturday Night Waltz (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- Aaron Copland.
- Chandos.
- 020.
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Ethel Smyth
Sonata in A minor Op.7 (4th mvt)
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.- CHANDOS.
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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.
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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.
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Anna Clyne
Masquerade
Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Anna Clyne: Mythologies.
- Avie.
- 1.
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Antonín Dvořák
Rondo in G minor Op.94
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.- Alisa Weilerstein - Dvorak.
- Decca.
- 5.
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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.
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Valerie Coleman
Red Clay & Mississippi Delta
Ensemble: Imani Winds.- eOne.
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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.
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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.
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Maurice Ravel
Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera
Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra.- EMI.
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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.
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Consuelo Velázquez
Besame mucho
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.- Los Pajaros Perdidos.
- Warner Classics.
- 120.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John Wilbye
The Lady Oriana for 6 voices [from "The triumphs of Oriana", 1601]
Performer: David Miller. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.- CHANDOS.
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Ronald Binge
Elizabethan Serenade
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
- Sony Music UK.
- 2.
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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.
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Ola Gjeilo
Serenity [O magnum mysterium]
Performer: Matthew Sharp. Ensemble: Tenebrae.- Decca.
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Jean Sibelius
2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)
Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: André Previn.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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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.
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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.
Broadcast
- Mon 21 Mar 2022 09:00ѿý Radio 3