
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.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask ѿý Sounds to play Essential Classics”
Last on
More episodes
Previous
Music Played
-
Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche Op.165b (3rd mvt)
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.- Poulenc: Music for 2 Pianos: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
- Philips.
- 10.
-
George Frideric Handel
Suite No 4 in D minor: Sarabande
Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.- Eternal Heaven - Handel: Suite No. 4 in D Minor: III. Sarabande.
- ERATO.
- 1.
-
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
O come, let us sing unto the Lord
Choir: Sansara. Conductor: Meghan Quinlan.- CONVIVIUM.
-
Alexander Borodin
Symphony no.1 in E flat major (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.- Naxos.
-
Richard Strauss
String Quartet in A Major, Op 2 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Oculi Ensemble.- Champs Hill Records.
-
John Christopher Smith
You Spotted Snakes
Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Catherine Bott. Conductor: Peter Holman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments.- Orpheus with His Lute: Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne (English Orphe.
- Hyperion.
- 16.
-
Cécile Chaminade
Concertino for flute & piano
Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Belle Époque: French Music for Wind.
- CHANDOS.
-
Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
- EMI Classics.
- 16.
-
François Couperin
Passacaille (Pièces de violes No 1)
Performer: Paolo Pandolfo. Performer: Thomas Boysen. Performer: Markus Hünninger.- Couperin: Pieces de violes: Paolo Pandolfo.
- Glossa.
- 7.
-
Sergey Rachmaninov
Oh never sing to me again Op.4 No.4
Singer: Katharina Konradi. Performer: Eric Schneider. -
Florence Price
Concert Overture No 1
Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mike Seal. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fugue (BWV 846) in C major
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
-
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso in D minor 'La Folia' after Corelli's Op.5`12
Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Ensemble: Concerto Köln.- ARCHIV.
-
Jerome Kern
Ol' man river
Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Martin Taylor.- We've got the whole world on a string: Grappelli/Taylor.
- EMI.
-
Edward Elgar
Fairy Pipers (The Wand of Youth - Suite No 1)
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- CHANDOS.
-
Franz Schubert
String Quintet C major D.956 (Scherzo & 'Furculesti')
Music Arranger: ZRI. Ensemble: ZRI.- ZRI Music.
-
Richard M. Sherman
Jungle Book (Trust in Me [The Python's Song])
Singer: Sterling Holloway.- EMI.
-
Howard Goodall
Blackadder Goes Forth
Performer: Band of the Royal Air Force, Germany. Conductor: Donald Wood.- BANDLEADER RECORDINGS.
-
Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.- The Grainger Edition, Vol. 13 - Works for Chamber Ensemble 1.
- Chandos.
- 6.
-
Padre Antonio Soler
Keyboard sonata in E flat major, Op 4 No 6 (1st mvt)
Performer: Daumants Liepiņš.- Soler: Keyboard Sonatas, R. 96-98.
- Naxos.
- 1.
-
Emily Lim
The Sun, Unafraid to Shine
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson. -
Robert Farnon
The Westminster Waltz
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- British Light Classics: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Barry Wandsworth.
- Warner Classics.
- 16.
-
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 94 in G major, 'Surprise'
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- WARNER CLASSICS.
-
Rebecca Dale
Salve Regina
Singer: Rosanna Wicks. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- Night Seasons.
- Signum Classics.
- 6.
-
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: III. Scherzo. Allegro
Ensemble: Ariel Quartet.- Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
- Orchid Classics.
- 3.
-
Joaquín Rodrigo
Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)
Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 10.
-
Isabella Leonarda
Sonata in D minor Op.16`12
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Marcin Świątkiewicz.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
-
R. Nathaniel Dett
Cinnamon Grove - no.3, Ritmo moderato e con sentimento - quasi gavotte
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- My Cup Runneth Over.
- NAVONA.
- 18.
-
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite Op.39 (Polka)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.- Dvorak: Violin concerto etc: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Swensen.
- Linn.
- 5.
Broadcast
- Tue 13 May 2025 09:30ѿý Radio 3