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Relax into the day with classical

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 25 Apr 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    貹ñ

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean Lhéritier

    Surrexit Pastor Bonus

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 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.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Reflets

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
    • Finlandia.
    • 4.
  • 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.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No 6 in F sharp minor, HWV 431

    Performer: Lisa Smirnova.
    • ECM.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    Im Frühling, D. 882

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Lyricist: Ernst Schulze. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Schubert's Four Seasons.
    • BIS.
    • 109.
  • 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.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Humoresque, Op 2 No 2 (Two Fantasy Pieces)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • Marcel Dupré

    Prelude (Prelude and fugue in B major Op.7`1)

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Bk.1)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Debussy: Preludes: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • 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.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • DECCA.
  • James MacMillan

    Memento

    Ensemble: Emperor Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite from Dardanus (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet Volume 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Whirl Away Waltz

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • 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.
  • Thomas Adès

    O Albion (Arcadiana)

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Ades: Living Toys.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 27.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • 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.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave, Op.31

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.
  • Gabriel Dupont

    Deux mélodies: No 1 Les Caresses

    Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Gabriel Dupont: The Complete Songs.
    • 貹é.
    • 2.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • AVIE.
  • 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.
    • 6.
  • 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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