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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music.

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 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

Tue 11 Feb 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • De Falla: Love The Magician: Simon, LSO.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO.59, 'Für Elise'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Eroica Variations/Fur Elise etc: Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 16.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacrée et danse profane

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Works by Ravel/Debussy.
    • NAIVE.
    • 11-12.
  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Air des démons (Scylla et Glaucus)

    Ensemble: Hofkapelle München. Conductor: Rüdiger Lotter.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Kristina Arakelyan

    To The Stars

    Performer: Grace Francis.
    • Sacred.
    • TMI.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento No. 11 in D Major, K. 251 "Nannerl-Septett": V. Rondeau.

    • Mozart, W.A.: The Wind Concertos / Serenades / Divertimenti.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 46.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 6 (S.23) [1615 no.4]

    Performer: Stephen Layton. Performer: Richard Farnes. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Gabrieli: The Glory of Venice - The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, The Phil.
    • Decca.
  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction & Allegro

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Espoir

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Chaminade: Songs; Chamber Music.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 22.
  • Kristina Arakelyan

    To the Stars

    Performer: Grace Francis.
    • Sacred.
    • TMI.
  • César Franck

    Les eolides

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Huw Daniel. Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Canto di bella bocca

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta.
    • Amon Ra records.
  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet in F major, unfinished (2nd mvt, Allegro scherzando)

    Music Arranger: Alf Årdal. Ensemble: Oslo Camerata. Director: Stephan Barratt-Due.
    • Grieg: String quartets: Olso Camerata/Barratt-Due.
    • Naxos.
  • Anon.

    O Maria, Stella Maris

    Choir: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.
  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Stardust

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Music Arranger: Bob Freedman. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Bob Freedman.
    • Resolution to Swing.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Hannah Peel

    Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

    Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.
    • My Own Pleasure.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902228.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Nicole Murphy

    Spinning Top

    Performer: Amir Farid. Performer: Lachlan Bramble. Performer: Ewen Bramble. Ensemble: Benaud Trio.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 11.
  • Michael Haydn

    Incidental Music to Zaire (Largo)

    Ensemble: German Chamber Academy. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Haydn: Zaire etc..
    • CPO.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Scherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata)

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Semiramis

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Gluck: Don Juan - Semiramis.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 33.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O ignis spiritus Paracliti

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
  • Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

    Voulez-Vous (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)

    Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    Au fond du temple saint (duet from The Pearl Fishers)

    Performer: Bavarian State Orchestra. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Ludovic Tézier. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy.
    • 'é.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet no.5 in F Major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: La magnifica comunità.
    • Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartets Nos. 1-6.
    • Tactus.
    • 502.
  • Franz Liszt

    Réminiscences de Don Juan arr for 2 pianos (No 4)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Mauricio Vallina.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Feb 2025 09:30

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