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Your perfect classical playlist

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bizet, Carmen - Duets and Arias: Bocelli/Domashenko/Mei/Terfel.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp K.299 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV.76 (Overture)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Marcel Dupré

    Prelude (Prelude and fugue in B major Op.7`1)

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Serenade Op.22 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Supraphon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes: Ballad for Edvard Grieg.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes, violins and continuo

    Performer: Hans-Peter Westermann. Performer: Michael Niesemann. Performer: Piet Dhont. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Telemann: Wind Concertos: Musica Antiqua Koln, Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 7.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Famous Italian Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Gang Chen

    Miao Mountain Morning

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 1.
  • Béla Bartók

    Music for strings, percussion and celesta Sz.106: 4th mvt; Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • Bartók: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fugue (3 Pieces)

    Performer: Vadim Vasilyevich Sakharov. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Piazzolla - Tango Ballet.
    • Teldec.
    • 12.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento d'Arianna (O Teseo, Teseo mio)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Mavis in Las Vegas

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major Op.13 no.6 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet. Performer: Eckart Runge.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Frank Renton.
    • Classic Brass.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 4.
  • Karl Goldmark

    'Rustic Wedding' symphony Op.26 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Goldmark: Symphony No. 1, "Rustic Wedding" & Violin Concerto - Dohnányi: Variati.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Robert Schumann

    Frauenliebe und leben (Helft mir, ihr Schwestern)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Spinning Song (Song without Words - Bk 6 Op.67)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Chandos.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No.5 in F minor, Op.42`1)

    Performer: Pierre Cochereau.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations (Aria)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PentaTone classics.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Sanctissima Maria

    Choir: El León de Oro. Conductor: Marco Antonio García de Paz.
    • HYPERION.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • ERATO.
  • Anders Hillborg

    O dessa ögon [Oh these eyes]

    Singer: Hannah Holgersson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Anders Hillborg: Sirens.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon septimi toni à 8

    Music Arranger: R. P. Block. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Ridenour.
    • CSO RESOUND.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.

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