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Your perfect classical playlist

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 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week.

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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi: 7 Overtures: NPO, Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV.269 "La Primavera"

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro te devote

    Singer: Lucy Sun. Singer: Annabel Green. Singer: Susannah Hill. Singer: Edward Cunningham. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Schumann

    Wie aus der Ferne (Davidsb眉ndlert盲nze)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze / Fantasie : Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid - ballet suite (No 3, Aragonaise)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow (Candide)

    Singer: Jerry Hadley. Singer: June Anderson. Singer: Adolph Green. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Bernstein - Candide.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 016.

  • Claude Debussy

    En Bateau (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor Wq.170 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Alan Silvestri

    Back to the Future Part III: End Credits

    Conductor: Alan Silvestri. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • VARESE SARABANDE.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • Ravel & Saint-Sa毛ns: Piano Trios.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Ein deutsches Requiem)

    Singer: Miku Yasukawa. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45.
    • BIS.
    • 301.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Achante et C茅phise: Ouverture

    Orchestra: Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande 脡curie. Conductor: Alexis Kossenko.
    • Rameau: Achante et C茅phise.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major 'Military' (2 Polonaises Op.40)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgr茅 lui: Danse slave

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Sonata No 2 in D Major (4th mvt)

    • Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Five Melodies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (Lively)

    Ensemble: Ensemble X.
    • AVIE.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.1 in C Major Op.15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5.
    • Ondine.
    • 3.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalila-symphonie (Jardin du sommeil d'amour)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Performer: Takashi Harada. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    础诲别濒补茂诲别

    Performer: Hubert Giesen. Singer: Fritz Wunderlich.
    • Schumann: Dichterliebe / Beethoven & Schubert: Lieder.
    • DG.
    • 18.

  • Gerald Finzi

    I praise the tender flower (Seven Poems of Robert Bridges)

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • A Finzi Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133: Ich freue mich in dir (arr. for brass)

    Music Arranger: Matthew Knight. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Christmas with Septura.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D, Hob 16 No 37

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • WARNER.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd girl's dance (The Mountain King, Op.37)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jan鈥怬lav Wedin.
    • A Swedish Pastorale.
    • BIS.
    • 015.

  • Callum Au

    Point of Ness

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.

  • Antonio Cesti

    Intorno all'idol mio (Orontea)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Night Passages.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user: Overture & Venusberg Music

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Wagner: Tannh盲user.
    • DECCA.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major Kk.455

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ariel Quartet.
    • Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 104.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.

  • Thomas Tallis

    God grant we grace [Tallis's canon] (9 Psalm Tunes)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.

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