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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 10 Nov 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd girl's dance, from The Mountain King

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jan‐Olav Wedin.
    • A Swedish Pastorale.
    • BIS.
    • 015.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Elin Manahan Thoms: Eternal Light.
    • Heliodor.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op 45 (2nd mvt, Scherzo - Perpetuum mobile)

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Beach / Chaminade / Howell: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 003.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Il mondo della luna (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • Haydn Overtures/Haydn Sinfonietta Wiern.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No.1

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • EMI.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Tempeste; L'air s'allume, la foudre gronde (from Jonas)

    Singer: Isabelle Desrochers. Ensemble: Ensemble des Idées heureuses. Director: Geneviève Soly.
    • Jacquet de La Guerre: Lisle De Delos / Jonas / Suite No. 3.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 24.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Wind serenade in D minor, Op.44 (3rd mvt, Andante con moto)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak: Blaserserenaden.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major D.959 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert, The Late Piano sonatas D.784,958, 959 960.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 3.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Mille regretz

    Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 5 No. 1: III. Rondeau

    Conductor: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Impromptu, Op 9

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • CPO.
  • Samuel Barber

    Essay for Orchestra No 2, Op 17

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Measham.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Tempeste; L'air s'allume, la foudre gronde (from Jonas)

    Singer: Isabelle Desrochers. Ensemble: Ensemble des Idées heureuses. Director: Geneviève Soly.
    • Jacquet de La Guerre: Lisle De Delos / Jonas / Suite No. 3.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 24.
  • Anonymous

    Canario

    Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 16.
  • Judith Weir

    Fish/Bird (Natural History)

    Singer: Ailish Tynan. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings, Op 48 (Finale - Tema Russo)

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Director: Jonathan Morton.
    • Linn.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Song of the Shrine (Enchantment)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • Navona.
    • 12.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 7 in F minor (3rd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7.
    • CPO.
    • 107.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Tempeste; L'air s'allume, la foudre gronde (from Jonas)

    Singer: Isabelle Desrochers. Ensemble: Ensemble des Idées heureuses. Director: Geneviève Soly.
    • Jacquet de La Guerre: Lisle De Delos / Jonas / Suite No. 3.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 24.
  • Humpback Whale

    Humpback whale song

    Performer: Humpback Whale.
    • Whales Sound Effects.
    • Hot Ideas 2014.
    • 47.
  • Michael Hurd

    Nineveh city was a city of sin (Jonah-Man Jazz)

    Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hurd: Pop Cantatas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV 253, 'La tempesta di mare' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Venti, fermate (Armida abbandonata)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Le Concert d’Astrée. Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm.
    • Handel: Italian Cantatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 27.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan Op.59

    Performer: Peter Wesley. Performer: Liivi Arder.
    • PDW.
  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So (From Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Louis Armstrong. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • VERVE.
  • Lera Auerbach

    24 Preludes for violin and piano: No 8

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Angela Yoffe.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Cantata No 51)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Baroque Duet.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.
  • Charlotte Sohy

    Histoire sentimentale, Op 34

    Orchestra: Avignon-Provence National Orchestra. Conductor: Debora Waldman.
    • La boite a pepites.
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Melancholia (Cantus Arcticus, Op.61)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • RAUTAVAARA: Cantus Arcticus / Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • French 13th Cent.

    Estampie Real: La Septime

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • A L'Estampida - Medieval Dance Music.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 5.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    November (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 011.
  • Eduard Tubin

    Symphony No 4 (Sinfonia lirica): 4th mvmt, Allegro

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Tubin: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

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