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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are the Manchester Camerata. 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 – another track from our featured ensemble this week, the Manchester Camerata.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 29 Jun 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Scott Joplin

    Sunflower slow drag

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 006.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major, TWV.55:D18 (Ouverture)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Telemann: Orchestral Suites.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Three pieces in old style (No 1)

    Orchestra: Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Agnieszka Duczmal.
    • CONIFER.
  • Johanna Kinkel

    Demokratenlied (Song of Democracy)

    Performer: Thomas Palm. Singer: Ingrid Schmithüsen.
    • Johanna Kinkel: Lieder.
    • cpo.
    • 24.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.94 in G major 'Surprise' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn - 12 London Symphonies.
    • Naive.
    • 2.
  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    Pastoral suite (No 3, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Naxos.
  • Louis Spohr

    String Sextet Op.140 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Villa Musica.
    • MDG.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Henry Purcell

    Cold Song (King Arthur)

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • Hush.
    • Universal.
    • 8.
  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    Il campiello (Ritornello)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures & Intermezzi: Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marrine.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Henriëtte Bosmans

    Concertino for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Radio Kamerorkest. Conductor: Ed Spanjaard.
    • NM Special.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Volte (Terpsichore)

    Ensemble: Collegium Terpsichore. Conductor: Fritz Neumeyer.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Aaron Copland

    Long time ago (Old American Songs, Set 1)

    Singer: William Warfield. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • A Copland Celebration: Volume 3 / Vocal Works and Opera.
    • Sony.
    • 1-5.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven. Conductor: Marc Niemann.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in D minor, Op 9 No 2 (second movement - Adagio)

    Performer: Katharina Arfken. Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • José Afonso

    Grandola, Vila Morena

    Singer: José Afonso.
    • Grândolas 25 de Abril de 1974.
    • Guilda Da Música.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Marseillaise, S. 237 (After Lisle)

    Performer: Domonkos Csabay.
    • Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 58: Music on National Themes.
    • Naxos.
    • 801.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    When all night long (Iolanthe)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Owen Brannigan. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan: Iolanthe.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Ethel Smyth

    March of the Women (Songs of Sunrise)

    Singer: Eiddwen Harrhy. Orchestra: Plymouth Festival Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • EMI.
  • Frederic Rzewski

    Variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (Final Variation)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Igot Levit Plays Bach, Beethoven and Rzewski.
    • Sony.
    • 38.
  • Earl Robinson

    The Ballad of Joe Hill

    Singer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Alan Booth.
    • VANGUARD.
  • Florence Price

    Nimble Feet (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Orchestrator: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.16 in D major K.451 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 7 in C major

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105 & Other Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Gavottes 1 & 2 (Hippolyte et Aricie, Act 5)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.9 in D minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Vlachovo kvarteto Praha.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Philips.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Kyrie (Westminster Mass)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • WARNER.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without words - Bk.8 Op.102 (no.3; Presto in C major)

    Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • DG.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas de deux (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI.

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