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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 Apr 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Glinka: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.
    • Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • 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.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Poisoned Fountain

    Performer: Seta Tanyel. Performer: Jeremy Brown.
    • Bax: Piano Duos Jeremy Brown/Seta Tanyel.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa, Op 89

    Performer: Laura Mikkola. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in C minor RV.480 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: L'Aura Soave Cremona.
    • Naive.
  • 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.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    Scherzo for string orchestra, Op 6

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Frans Rasmussen.
    • DA CAPO.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Impromptu in F sharp major Op.36

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Scriabin/Faure/Chopin: Impromptus.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
    • 12.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia à 3 no.3 in G minor Z.734

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Barbara Bonney: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Teldec.
    • 11.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • 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.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17 for violin and piano

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes, B. 99

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Supraphon.
  • John Tavener

    Mother and Child

    Music Arranger: Matthew Barley. Performer: Matthew Barley. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga.
    • Tavener: The Protecting Veil.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.
  • 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.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English suite no.3 in G minor BWV.808 (Prelude)

    Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Gustav Leonhardt - Portraits.
    • ERATO.
    • 101.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Suite populaire brésilienne, W. 020: II. Schottisch-Chôro

    Performer: Franz Halász.
    • Villa-Lobos: Complete Works for Solo Guitar.
    • BIS.
    • 202.
  • 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.
  • George Gershwin

    Two Waltzes in C major

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborado del gracioso arr for orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

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