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Your perfect classical playlist

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.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

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3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rejoice Greatly (Messiah)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: Le Concert d’Astrée. Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm.
    • ERATO.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Violin Sonata in B minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    White Landscapes, Op. 47a; (2nd mvt)

    Performer: John Barrow. Performer: Jonathan Price. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3, Nos.2 & 3

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    4 Noëls sur les instruments H.531, 534

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Christmas Concertos.
    • Archiv.
    • 1-4.
  • Arthur Butterworth

    Gigues

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Butterworth.
    • A Butterworth, Symphony no.5: RSNO/Butterworth.
    • Epoch.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major, H XV 24 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Susan Tomes. Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: Richard Lester. Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Frederick Delius

    Sleigh Ride [Winter Night]

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Christmas Fantasy.
    • DECCA.
    • 10.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Septet in D minor Op.74 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Victor Hely-Hutchinson

    Carol Symphony (Prelude)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony.
    • Naxos.
  • Edward Elgar

    2 Partsongs for female chorus, 2 violins and piano (Op.26), no.1; The Snow

    Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Jeremy Ballard. Performer: Robin Thurlby. Performer: Keith Swallow. Conductor: Donald Hunt.
    • Elgar: The Complete Choral Songs: Worcester Cathedral Choir, The Donald Hunt Sin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Music Arranger: Isao Tomita. Performer: Isao Tomita.
    • Tomita: Snowflakes are dancing.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    December: Christmas (The Seasons, Op 37b arr Gauk)

    Music Arranger: Aleksander Vasil'yevich Gauk. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • Miroirs.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Performer: Patricia Forbes. Performer: Christopher Royall. Performer: Neil MacKenzie. Performer: Simon Birchall. Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • An English Christmas Collection: The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for viola d'amore and strings in A minor, RV397

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Hopkinson Smith. Ensemble: Ars Antigua.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Arnold Bax

    Christmas Eve - tone poem

    Performer: Malcolm Hicks. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in C minor, D 899 No 1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Le Noël des Oiseaux

    Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Florian Helgath.
    • The Christmas Album.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 13.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Romance in F minor Op.11

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

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