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A feast of great music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

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 29 Apr 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor

    Music Arranger: Martin Schmeling. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 1.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Peterborough String Orchestra.
    • 5 Italian Oboe Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No 1 in A major, 'In Summer' (2nd mvt, Flies and Butterflies)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La cambiale di matrimonio (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Young Prince and Princess (Sheherazade)

    Performer: Elise Båtnes. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Brothers (Wild Swans)

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 12.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.104 in D major 'London' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Scott Joplin

    Elite Syncopations

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Joplin: Piano Rags: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • Rameau: Ballet Suites: European Union Baroque Orchestra/Goodman.
    • Naxos.
    • 24.
  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    String Quartet in A major – second movement (Andante)

    Ensemble: The Maier Quartet.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Per le porte del tormento

    Singer: Lawrence Zazzo. Singer: Veronica Cangemi. Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Concerto for Orchestra (2nd mvmt)

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Spano.
    • Jennifer Higdon: City Scape & Concerto for Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 2.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Brothers (Wild Swans)

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 12.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Wind 29in D minor, Op 44 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Winds of Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Nina Kotova.
    • SONY.
    • 004.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio for violin, cello and piano

    Ensemble: Trio Karénine.
    • Fauré, Ravel & Tailleferre.
    • Mirare.
    • 8-11.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Brothers (Wild Swans)

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 12.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    The Sandman, and the Evening Prayer (Hansel & Gretel)

    Singer: Ileana Cotrubaș. Singer: Frederica von Stade. Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Sir John Pritchard.
    • Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel.
    • CBS.
    • 11-12.
  • Samuel Barber

    Sure on this shining night

    Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Barber: Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3 (Arr. Parkin for Cello and Pian.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Schwanenlied (Swan Song)

    Performer: Ursula Dütschler. Singer: Francine van der Heijden.
    • The Art of Mendelssohnian Song.
    • Claves Records.
    • 2.
  • Gene de Paul

    Barn Dance (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

    Music Arranger: Saul Chaplin. Music Arranger: Adolph Deutsch. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • That's Entertainment - A Celebration of the MGM Film Musical: John Wilson Orches.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical Symphony' (2nd mvmt, Larghetto)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 5 No 3 (3rd mvmt, Presto)

    Performer: Marie-Catherine Girod.
    • Regards de Femmes.
    • Mirare Productions.
    • 02.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Symphony in A minor, Op 8 (3rd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • ALTO.
  • Hanna Havrylets

    Prayer

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Meridian. Conductor: Irene Messoloras.
    • Prayer.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.4 BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Hans Pfitzner

    Three Preludes from 'Palestrina'

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner.
    • Hans Pfitzner.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 163-165.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.2 in C major Op.53 (Valse)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Stuttgart Recordings.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 602.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    5 Preludes: No 1 in E minor (Homage to the Brazilian country people)

    Performer: Franz Halász.
    • Villa-Lobos: Complete Works for Solo Guitar.
    • BIS.
    • 110.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert de Nations, Jordi.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Kathleen Allan

    The Green and Salty Days

    Ensemble: Cantus.
    • The Green and Salty Days.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in G major, Op 62 No 4

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • SONY.

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