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Celebrating classical greats

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

Fri 11 Apr 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Terje Tønnesen.
    • SIMAX.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Baldassare Galuppi

    Keyboard Sonata no.34 in C Minor (Larghetto)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • DG.
    • 16.
  • Charles Ives

    Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies.
    • DG.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto-Suite in F major, TWV.54:F1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Tempesta di Mare. Director: Gwyn Roberts. Director: Richard Stone.
    • Telemann: The Concerti-En-Suite.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop, drop, slow tears

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Singer: Anthony Way. Director: John Scott.
    • Passiontide at St Paul's: The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, John Scott.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Marcello Viotti.
    • Italian Opera Arias: Rolando Villazon/Munchner Rundfunkorchester/Viotti.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.
  • Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek

    Symphony in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Voříšek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La parade

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Toccata marziale

    Ensemble: United States Air Force Band of the Rockies.
    • Altissimo.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Clemenza di Tito: Duet "Ah perdona il primo affetto"

    Singer: Sunhae Im. Singer: Marie‐Claude Chappuis. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop, drop slow tears

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Performer: Anthony Way. Conductor: John Scott.
  • Jules Massenet

    Sevillana (Don César de Bazan)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Massenet: Fantaisie etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet no.1 in E minor 'From my life' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Clarinet Concerto in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto etc..
    • Decca.
    • 03.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Ave dulcissima Maria

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Jonathan Sells.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Sibelius and the Kalevala.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.
  • Jan Antonín Losy

    Chaconne in F Major

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Note d’oro.
    • BIS.
    • 801.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop, drop slow tears

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Performer: Anthony Way. Conductor: John Scott.
  • William Walton

    A Litany for Chorus (Version 1)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae antiquae

    Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols.
    • Saydisc.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater: "Quis est homo qui non fleret"

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: James Bowman. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve Regina in F.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • William Byrd

    Civitas sancti tui

    Ensemble: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Libera Nos - The Cry of the Oppressed.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    2 Mazurkas Op.19 (Obertass)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: José Gallardo.
    • Warner.
  • Louis James Alfred Lefébure‐Wély

    Sortie in E flat major (L'Orgue moderne, Bk.11)

    Performer: David Sanger.
    • Lefebure-Wely Organ Music played by David Sanger.
    • MERIDIAN.
    • 8.
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Panorama: Famous Overtures.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Bamboula

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Summertime.
    • DECCA.
    • 16.
  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer (Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet)

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Purcell: Theatre Music.
    • Decca.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah (Part 1: conclusion)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Patricia Bardon. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Matthew Munro. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • DECCA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27 no.2

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Marksmen (3 Bavarian Dances)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • DUTTON.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op 22: No 1

    Music Arranger: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Clara & Robert Schumann: Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mélodie (2 Pieces Op.20)

    Performer: Jamie Walton. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Erik Satie

    Danse cuirassée (Vieux séquins et vieilles cuirasses)

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Franz Liszt

    The Dance in the Village Inn (Mephisto Waltz No 1)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Deutsche Grammophone.

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