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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 23 Jun 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point - overture

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Zig Zag.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades mistérieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 6)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Adès. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Menuet)

    Music Arranger: Mason Jones. Ensemble: Bläserquintett der Staatskapelle Berlin.
    • Castigo Classic Recordings.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K 184

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Edward Gregson

    Friday A.M.

    Performer: Murray McLachlan.
    • Edward Gregson: Complete Music for Solo Piano.
    • Naxos.
    • 701.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Sextet (Dancing with the Shadow - Suite)

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • British Women Composers, Volume 2.
    • Lorelt.
    • 13.
  • Robert Schumann

    Cello Concerto in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Schumann: Cello Concerto.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    The French Dispatch "Blackbird Pie"

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Conrad Pope.
    • The French Dispatch.
    • ABKCO Music & Records, Inc..
    • 21.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    The French Dispatch "Obituary"

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Conrad Pope.
    • The French Dispatch.
    • ABKCO Music & Records, Inc..
    • 1.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    Prelude (Fritiof Suite)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.
  • Herbert Howells

    King David

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.
    • A Musical Zoo.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 16.
  • Jacob van Eyck

    Engels nachtegaeltje (‘The English Nightingale’)

    Performer: Marion Verbruggen.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.1 in D major, Op.11 (6th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Amy Beach

    Quintet in F sharp minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Clélia Iruzun. Ensemble: Coull String Quartet.
    • SOMM.
  • Airat Ichmouratov

    Viola concerto No.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elvira Misbakhova. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Airat Ichmouratov.
    • Ichmouratov: Piano Concerto, Viola Concerto No. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday afternoons Op.7 (Cuckoo!)

    Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Performer: Alexander Wells. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Britten: A Ceremony of Carols.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Richard Wagner

    Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • TELDEC.
  • Thelonious Monk

    Round Midnight

    Performer: John Harle. Performer: Henry Lowther. Music Arranger: Richard Rodney Bennett. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • The John Harle Collection; Vol. 2 Lush Life.
    • Sospiro.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No 15 in G major BWV 860

    Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • Ondine.
  • William Byrd

    Lullaby

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Seckou Keita

    Tamala's Caravan Trail

    Performer: Seckou Keita. Music Arranger: Davide Mantovani. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Heron.
    • African Rhapsodies (A Work for Kora & Symphonic Orchestra).
    • Claves Records.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Conflagration (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • Haydn: The Complete Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 9.
  • Gavin Bryars

    Glorious Hill

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir.
    • GB Records.
  • Leos Janáček

    The Street Leading to the Castle (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Janacek: Sinfonietta: Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Trio in D minor (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

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  • Fri 23 Jun 2023 09:00

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