
Celebrating classical greats
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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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.- Glinka: Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
- 6.
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Franz Schubert
Piano Trio in E flat major D.929 (2nd mvt)
Performer: The Florestan Trio.- Schubert Piano Trio in E flat major D929.
- Hyperion.
- 2.
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Louise Farrenc
Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)
Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.- Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Lauda Jerusalem (Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- C. Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine - 1610: Christina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata.
- Virgin Classics.
- 10.
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Arnold Bax
The Poisoned Fountain
Performer: Seta Tanyel. Performer: Jeremy Brown.- Bax: Piano Duos Jeremy Brown/Seta Tanyel.
- Chandos.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
- ERATO.
- 12.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Africa, Op 89
Performer: Laura Mikkola. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.- BIS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in C minor RV.480 (1st mvt)
Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: L'Aura Soave Cremona.- Naive.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte K.588)
Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.- Erato.
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Nancy Dalberg
Scherzo for string orchestra, Op 6
Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Frans Rasmussen.- DA CAPO.
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Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu in F sharp major Op.36
Performer: Katya Apekisheva.- Scriabin/Faure/Chopin: Impromptus.
- CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
- 12.
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Henry Purcell
Fantazia à 3 no.3 in G minor Z.734
Ensemble: Fretwork.- Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 3.
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Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22)
Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.- Sibelius.
- Linn Records.
- 3.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondino in E flat major for wind octet, WoO 25
Ensemble: Albion Ensemble.- Hummel/Beethoven/Gluck: Wind Music: Albion Ensemble.
- Helios.
- 13.
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Franz Schubert
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774
Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.- Schubert: Lieder: Barbara Bonney: Geoffrey Parsons.
- Teldec.
- 11.
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Claude Debussy
La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
- 10.
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Malcolm Arnold
Concerto for Two Pianos (3 hands), Op 104 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Cyril Smith. Performer: Phyllis Sellick. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.- Arnold conducts Arnold.
- EMI Classics.
- 6.
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Edward Elgar
La Capricieuse Op.17 for violin and piano
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.- DECCA.
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Antonín Dvořák
Prague Waltzes, B. 99
Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- Supraphon.
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John Tavener
Mother and Child
Music Arranger: Matthew Barley. Performer: Matthew Barley. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga.- Tavener: The Protecting Veil.
- Signum Classics.
- 401.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker Suite (March)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Telarc.
- 3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English suite no.3 in G minor BWV.808 (Prelude)
Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.- Gustav Leonhardt - Portraits.
- ERATO.
- 101.
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Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11
Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- EMI.
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Gregorio Allegri
Miserere mei Deus
Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.- Allegri: Miserere; Choir of King's College, Cleobury.
- EMI.
- 2.
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Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Suite populaire brésilienne, W. 020: II. Schottisch-Chôro
Performer: Franz Halász.- Villa-Lobos: Complete Works for Solo Guitar.
- BIS.
- 202.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.48 in C major 'Maria Theresia' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
- Alpha.
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George Gershwin
Two Waltzes in C major
Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.- Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Maurice Ravel
Alborado del gracioso arr for orchestra
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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- Mon 28 Apr 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3