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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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 the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 1 Sep 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Saturday Night Waltz (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.25 in G minor, K183 - 1st mvt, arr for guitars

    Performer: Rodrigo y Gabriela.
    • ATO records.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French suite no. 5 in G major BWV.816 for keyboard - Sarabande

    Performer: Peter Hill.
    • J.S. Bach: The French Suites.
    • Delphian.
    • 003.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Notturno in E flat major, D 897

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.
  • Anna Clyne

    PIVOT

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Linn.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Bagatelle Op.47 no.2

    Performer: Gábor Ormai. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Waltz (Face of Another)

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John Adams.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet No.1 'Kreutzer Sonata' (arr. for orchestra) - 1st mvt

    Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • The Kreutzer Project.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F Major, RV 571 for 7 instruments and orchestra

    Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Luiz Bonfá

    Manha de carnaval (From 'Orfeu Negro')

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky.
    • À sa guitare.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 - iv. Marche au supplice

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Raphaël Imbert

    So Long, Radio Voice

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Pierre-François Blanchard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Fear No More the Heat of the Sun

    Music Arranger: Patrick Hawes. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Joby Talbot

    The Mad Hatter's Tea Party (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.
    • Signum.
  • Duke Ellington

    Newport Festival Suite - Newport Up

    Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Columbia.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhäuser (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (4th & 5th mvts)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 008.
  • John Hughes

    Cwm Rhondda

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • Pulse.
  • Henry Francis Lyte

    Abide with Me

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • Pulse.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' - 4th movement, Allegro un poco

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 4.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    L'Amour est le dieu de la paix (Anacréon)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Les Paladins. Conductor: Jérôme Corréas.
    • Le Triomphe De L'Amour.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine

    Ensemble: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • Debussy/Poulenc/Franck/Ravel:Music for Cello & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Nunc dimittis (Vespers)

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Ondine.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A flat major Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Tragic Overture, Double Concerto & Serenade No. 2.
    • Lso Live.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major Kk.455

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Djelimoussa Sissoko

    Mako Mady

    Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Vincent Ségal.
    • Chamber Music.
    • No Format!.

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  • Thu 1 Sep 2022 09:00

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