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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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

Fri 13 Jan 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)

    Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Orff: Carmina burana.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 125.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas de deux (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K.375 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Winds. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Clarinet Concerto / Serenade No. 11 (Symphonieorchester.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 008.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor (6th mvmt, Aria)

    Ensemble: Les Dominos.
    • RICERCAR.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Euryanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • EMI.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Le Chat noir (The Black Cat)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La primavera (Trittico botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Robert Morton

    Le souvenir de vous me tue

    Ensemble: Le Miroir de Musique. Director: Baptiste Romain.
    • RICERCAR.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major

    Orchestrator: Albert Parlow. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • Ayo Bankole

    Variations for Little Ayo

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • Heritage.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    Scherzo for string orchestra, Op 6

    Orchestra: Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Frans Rasmussen.
    • DA CAPO.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Le Chat noir (The Black Cat)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.96 in D major 'Miracle' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos.94 & 96.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Benedetto Ferrari

    Queste pungenti spine

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 8.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Anniversaries, Fancy Free Suite, Overture to Candide & Overture to Wo.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Carlo Albanesi

    Piano Sonata No 4 in B flat minor: II. Andante

    Performer: Julia Severus.
    • Albanesi: Piano Works, Vol. 1.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 107.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.50:1 'Grillen-Symphonie' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco

    Choir: Chorus of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • Verdi: Choruses: Santa Cecilia/Rizzi.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Sextet (Dancing with the shadow suite)

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • British Women Composers, Volume 2.
    • Lorelt.
    • 13.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Le Chat noir (The Black Cat)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

    Five Eyes

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Geraldine McGreevy.
    • Songs By Armstrong Gibbs.
    • Hyperion.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G minor, Kk.30 'Cat's Fugue'

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • George Gershwin

    (I've Got) Beginner's Luck

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • The Complete Gershwin Songbook.
    • AudioSonic Music.
    • 6.
  • Leos Janáček

    On an overgrown path (The little owl has not flown away)

    Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • Signum.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (With cat-like tread)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Procession of the Cats on Solstice Night

    Performer: Giorgio Koukl.
    • Animals in Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Booker T. Jones

    Born under a bad sign

    Singer: Albert King.
    • The Definitive Albert King.
    • Stax.
    • 5.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Musette (King Christian II)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • RCA.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Rameau

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boréades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (3rd mvt, Menuetto)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir

    In Gray

    Performer: Hildur Guðnadóttir.
    • Decca.
  • Dmitry Bortniansky

    Kol' slaven nash (How great is our Lord in Zion)

    Choir: Ensemble Cherubim. Conductor: Marika Kuzma.
    • Bortniansky: I cried out to the Lord: Hymns and Choral Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol.2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9-12.

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  • Fri 13 Jan 2023 09:00

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