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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

Mon 1 May 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boréades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (Juba)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore - overture no.1 Op.138

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Overturen - Weiner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Christina Bjorkoe.
    • Das Jahr - 12 Charakterstücke für Klavier.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 5.
  • Leos Janáček

    Starodavny 1 (Lachian Dances)

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd.
    • Naxos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 1.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Scaramella va alla guerra

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Erasme - Eloge de la folie (Version française).
    • Alia Vox.
    • 60.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Leggenda

    Performer: Francesco de Angelis. Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in E minor, B.56

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 14.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major for oboe and bassoon RV.545 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Ïշ.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gretchen am Spinnrade

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Jörg Demus.
    • Schubert/Schumann Songs.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • LINN.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Tune

    Performer: Anthony Aarons. Performer: Andrew Arthur.
    • The Music of Royal Weddings.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet Concertante in G minor Op.15`2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Elmore Quartet.
    • ѿý recording.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Jablonski. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Concerto; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Overtur.
    • Ondine.
    • 104.
  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the Month of Maying

    Choir: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Director: Mark Williams.
    • OACD9049D.
  • Trad.

    The Furry Dance

    Performer: Helston Town Band.
    • Topic.
  • Robert Schumann

    Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis Op.39.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Eric Coates

    Calling All Workers

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • EMI.
  • Earl Robinson

    The Ballad of Joe Hill

    Singer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Alan Booth.
    • VANGUARD.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    May [Bright nights] (The Seasons Op.37b)

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frederick Loewe

    The Lusty Month of May (Camelot)

    Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. Performer: Julie Andrews.
    • Camelot: Original Cast Recording.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major, Op.11 No.5 (Minuet)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Royal Classics.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Tijana Milošević. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • Roots.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.
  • William Byrd

    Laudibus in sanctis

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors.
    • Coro.
    • 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.46 no.3

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • Dvorak: 16 Slavonic Dances: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Neumann.
    • Apex.
    • 3.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Chorale

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major HWV.295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Springtime on Funen Op.42

    Singer: Inga Nielsen. Singer: Kim von Binzer. Singer: Jorgen Klint. Choir: University Choir 'Lille Muko'. Choir: St. Klemens School Children's Choir. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tamás Vető.
    • UNICORN KANCHANA.

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