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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Today's Essential Performers are the Hebrides Ensemble. Presented by Georgia Mann.

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 Performers – our final Scottish group in focus this week is the Hebrides Ensemble.

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

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Last on

Fri 10 Jun 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Finale (Le carnaval des animaux)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Ayla Sahin. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Alasdair Malloy. Performer: Konya Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca 4851156.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Masato Suzuki. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan.
    • J.S. Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.27 (no.2 in D flat major)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, The Nocturnes.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Nikos Skalkottas

    The Vintage (4 Images)

    Orchestra: Athens State Orchestra. Conductor: Stefanos Tsialis.
    • The Neoclassical Skalkottas.
    • Naxos.
    • 303.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Volume 2: Alina Ibragimova/ Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gloria (Mass in C major, K 317, 'Coronation')

    Singer: Teresa Wakim. Singer: Paula Murrihy. Singer: Thomas Corneille. Singer: Sumner Thompson. Choir: Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Mass in C major: Handel and Haydn Society/Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 10.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite (March)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • The History of Brass Band Music: The Golden Era.
    • Doyen.
    • 004.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata no. 3 in D major

    Ensemble: The Bach Players.
    • Coviello.
  • Traditional Spiritual

    Free at last

    Performer: Vivian Taylor. Music Arranger: Julia Perry. Singer: Robert Honeysucker.
    • Watch and Pray. Spirituals and Art Songs by African-American Women Composers.
    • KOCH.
    • 021.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.14

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Albert Roussel

    Bacchanale (Bacchus et Ariane)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.
    • Roussel: Symphony Nos. 2-4 & Ballets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • Manos Hadjidakis

    O tahidrómos (The Postman)

    Performer: Kostas Papadopoulos. Music Arranger: Stavros Xarchakos. Singer: Agnes Baltsa. Orchestra: Athens Experimental Orchestra. Conductor: Stavros Xarchakos.
    • Songs my country taught me.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Drink up, the wine is here! (from The Seasons)

    Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Chór NFM. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 10.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String quartet in F major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Ravel, Debussy & Fauré String Quartets.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Federico Mompou

    Cançons i danses (Excerpts): No. 6b, Dansa. Ritmado [Arr. for Guitar]

    • Camino.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 304.
  • Judith Weir

    O Viridissima

    Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble.
    • Airs from Another Planet: Chamber Music and Songs by Judith Weir.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Sultan Abdülaziz

    Hicâz Mandira

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Mediterraneo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Chandos.
  • Lü Wencheng

    Autumn moon over a calm lake

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Dragon Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute Concerto in D major RV.93

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nils‐Erik Sparf. Performer: Tullo Galli. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Estévez

    Mediodia en el llano

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Fischermädchen, D 957 No 10 (Schwanengesang)

    Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Christian Gerhaher.
    • Schubert: Schwanengesang & 4 Lieder: Gerhaher/Huber.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 10.

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