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A feast of great music

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.

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

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

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

Last on

Fri 31 Jan 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Marche hongroise [Rakoczy march] (La Damnation de Faust)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • Berlioz: Harold en Italie: Pasquale, Ormandy.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Charles Gounod

    Mors et Vita: Judex

    Orchestra: Richard Hickox Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Decca.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 428 (Air with 5 variations)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Joanna Marsh

    I take thee

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • HYPERION.
  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Tango

    Music Arranger: Victor Babin. Music Arranger: Victor Babin. Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • HYPERION.
  • Antonio Salieri

    Symphony in D Major 'Veneziana' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Sinfonia - Salieri, J.C. Bach, Arne, Purcell, Albinoni, Pachelbel.
    • ELOQUENCE.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne in E flat major

    Composer: Maria Theresia von Paradis. Performer: Jian Wang. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in E Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les Ombres.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Sonny Kompanek

    Killer Tango

    Performer: Canadian Brass.
    • OPENING DAY.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix

    Singer: Olga Borodina. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • Arias.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 8.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Impromptu no.2 in B minor

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.
  • 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.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus: "Paix favorable, paix adorable"

    Singer: Françoise Masset. Singer: Jean-Louis Bindi. Choir: Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Dardanus.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 47.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner gut BWV.957

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Bach - The Neumeister Chorales.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • César Franck

    Symphony in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Debussy, Attahir, Ravel.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia: 2. La barcheta

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Piètro Buratti. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
    • Helios.
    • 14.
  • Alessandro Grandi

    Ave Regina

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Grandi - Sacri Concerti.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.
  • Jean-Baptiste Arban

    Theme and Variations on 'The Carnival of Venice'

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • TELDEC.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'Embarquement pour Cythère

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Performer: Hélène Mercier.
    • Poulenc Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 18.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100 / Stravinsky: The Rite of Spr.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffmann)

    Performer: Frankie Carle. Music Arranger: Frankie Carle. Ensemble: Frankie Carle & His Sunrise Serenaders.
    • Jazzing The Classics Vintage Style.
    • ASV.
    • 021.
  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Requiem aeternam; Introitus (Missa pro defunctis)

    Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet no.2 in G major Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B Minor D.759 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Franz Liszt

    Kling leise, mein Lied S.301

    Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: James Lockhart.
    • Strauss Lieder avec piano Sawallisch.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 22.
  • Robert Schumann

    6 Studies in Canonic Form, Op 56: No 4

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Four Hands.
    • ERATO.
    • 20.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd-Girl's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Music Arranger: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Christian Lindberg. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • The Romantic Trombone.
    • Bis.
    • 7.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Oboe Concerto in E flat major, Wq 165 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Xenia Löffler. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Peter Friis Johansson.
    • BIS.

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  • Fri 31 Jan 2025 09:30

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