
Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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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Richard Rodgers
South Pacific Overture
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Tunick.- South Pacific.
- CBS.
- 1.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor (5 Morceaux de fantaisie Op.3)
Performer: Simon Trpceski.- Simon Trpčeski plays Rachmaninov.
- Warner Classics.
- 13.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B flat major Op.76 no.4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.- BIS.
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Benjamin Britten
Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Waltz)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
- Decca.
- 9.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah (Comfort ye, my people & Every valley shall be exalted)
Composer: George Frideric Handel. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Philips.
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Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
- 11.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 5 in D major, Op 107, 'Reformation' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.- Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Cécile Chaminade
Carnival Waltz, Op.73
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Georges Bizet
L'Arlésienne Suite no.1 (Carillon)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Director: Marc Minkowski.- Bizet: L'arlesienne, Carmen suites: Minkowski.
- Naive.
- 8.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The House of Life (No 2, Silent Noon)
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Ashley Riches. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (BWV.1046) in F major
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Paul Reade
Prelude (The Victorian Kitchen Garden)
Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Skaila Kanga.- Emma Johnson - Encores.
- ASV.
- 1.
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Michael Torke
Bright Blue Music
Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
- Argo.
- 005.
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Giacomo Puccini
O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Decca.
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Malcolm Arnold
Little suite for orchestra No 2 (Dance)
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Arnold: Concerto for 28 players etc.: City of London Sinfonia/Hickox.
- Chandos.
- 9.
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Erik Satie
Le Piccadilly
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Satie: Avant-Dernieres Pensees: Alexandre Tharaud.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 12.
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Henry Walford Davies
Royal Air Force March Past
Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Barrie Hingley.- Salute to Heroes: The Central band of the R.A.F.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Peter Ludwig Hertel
Clog Dance (La fille mal gardée)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- EMI.
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Gabriel Fauré
Souvenirs de Bayreuth
Performer: Eric Le Sage. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- ALPHA.
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Alec Templeton
Bach Goes To Town
Performer: Benny Goodman.- Benny Goodman Selected Favorites, Vol. 2.
- Charly Records.
- 10.
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Charles Avison
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 9 No 10
Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
- Divine Art.
- 1.
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Hubert Parry
Jerusalem
Music Arranger: Edward Elgar. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.- Jerusalem, I was Glad: Choir of Winchester Cathedral.
- Argo.
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Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Sorrel Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Errollyn Wallen
Chorale
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.- Timelapse.
- Signum Classics.
- 1201.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata in D major, K306
Performer: Hana Chang. Performer: Jonathan Ware. -
Carl Nielsen
Symphony no.4 Op.29 'The Inextinguishable (1st mvt)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.- Chandos.
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Niccolò Paganini
24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 24 in A Minor. Tema con
Performer: María Dueñas.- Paganini: 24 Caprices — Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 24.
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Herbert Howells
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor: III. Allegro. Hard and Bright Again
Performer: Kathryn Stott. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Herbert Howells: Concertos & Dances.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.- SONY.
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Sir James MacMillan
The Gallant Weaver
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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Alan Menken
Beauty and the Beast (Overture)
Music Arranger: James Shearman. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Kosarin.- Beauty and the Beast.
- Walt Disney Records.
- 1.
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