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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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Emmanuel Chabrier
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Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Musicales Actes Sud.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Brahms: The Symphonies.
- Decca.
- 7.
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Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Jean Lhéritier
Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Choir: Stile Antico.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto in C minor for two oboes, bassoon and continuo (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Lili Boulanger
Reflets
Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.- Path to the Moon.
- Chandos.
- 105.
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Leonard Bernstein
Candide (Overture)
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
- Finlandia.
- 4.
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Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D (Capriccio)
Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Braham / Stravinsky - Violin Concertos - Hilary Hahn.
- Sony.
- 7.
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George Frideric Handel
Suite No 6 in F sharp minor, HWV 431
Performer: Lisa Smirnova.- ECM.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Franz Schubert
Im Frühling, D. 882
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Lyricist: Ernst Schulze. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.- Schubert's Four Seasons.
- BIS.
- 109.
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Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Funeral March
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral March.
- DG.
- 1.
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Carl Nielsen
Humoresque, Op 2 No 2 (Two Fantasy Pieces)
Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Markus Becker.- EMI.
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Johann David Heinichen
Dresden Concerto in F major S.235 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 5.
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Marcel Dupré
Prelude (Prelude and fugue in B major Op.7`1)
Performer: Robert Quinney.- SIGNUM.
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl.- SUPRAPHON.
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Claude Debussy
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Bk.1)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- Debussy: Preludes: Krystian Zimerman.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 8.
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William Byrd
Mass for 5 voices (Kyrie)
Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey: Quinney/O'Donnell.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes
Performer: Beatrice Rana.- WARNER.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.- DECCA.
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James MacMillan
Memento
Ensemble: Emperor Quartet.- BIS.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Suite from Dardanus (Overture)
Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.- Music for Brass Septet Volume 2.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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Florence Price
Whirl Away Waltz
Performer: Kirsten Johnson.- Guild.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos: Ibragimova/OAE/Jurowski.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Thomas Adès
O Albion (Arcadiana)
Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.- Ades: Living Toys.
- EMI Classics.
- 14.
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Frédéric Chopin
Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
Performer: Martha Argerich.- Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
- 27.
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata BWV.4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden'
Singer: Zsuzsi Tóth. Singer: Victoria Cassano. Singer: Philippe Froeliger. Singer: Robert Buckland. Singer: Sebastian Myrus. Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.- RICERCAR.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche Slave, Op.31
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- ORFEO.
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Gabriel Dupont
Deux mélodies: No 1 Les Caresses
Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.- Gabriel Dupont: The Complete Songs.
- 貹é.
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Henry Litolff
Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- AVIE.
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Percy Grainger
Father and Daughter for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Simon Davies. Singer: Julian Podger. Singer: Nicolas Robertson. Singer: Julian Clarkson. Singer: Noel Mann.- The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
- Philips.
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George Enescu
Romanian rhapsody no. 1, Op.11`1
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- Liszt And Enesco Rhapsodies.
- MERCURY.
- 1.
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