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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 17 Mar 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in G flat major (1829)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Viola d'amore Concerto in A major, RV.396

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira no. 5 (Aria)

    Performer: Elsa Dreisig. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Bach Inspirations.
    • Warner.
    • 12.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job, a Masque for Dancing, Scene 6: Dance of Job's Comforters

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Job & Variations for Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 19.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands together

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8

    Performer: Akiko Suwanai. Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Poeme.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 7.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    String quartet No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Scherzo

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Puccini: Discoveries: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi/Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Improvisation

    䲹áDz

    Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nuit d'etoiles

    Composer: Théodore de Banville. Performer: Philippe Cassard. Singer: Natalie Dessay.
    • De l'opéra à la chanson.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 22.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in E flat major ("St Anne"), BWV 552/2

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • J. S. Bach - Alio modo - Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14: 3rd mvt - Quasi variazoni

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Furies (Orphée et Eurydice)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Elegy)

    Performer: Stephen Bell. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Jacqueline Shave.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Paul Simon

    The Sound Of Silence

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Music Arranger: Chris Trueman. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • The Sound of Silence.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I know that my redeemer liveth (Messiah)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Director: Hervé Niquet.
    • Messiah.
    • ALPHA.
    • 22.
  • Josef Suk

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 8 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Florian Donderer. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Kiveli Dörken.
    • ARS Produktion.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Le grand tango

    Performer: John‐Henry Crawford. Performer: Victor Santiago Asuncion.
    • ǰó.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 9.
  • Tommaso Giordani

    The Irish Medley

    Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • LINN.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No.1

    Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • Satie: Early Piano Works, Volume 2.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.98 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Haydn: 7 "London" Symphonies: COE, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Mar 2023 09:00

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