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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 13 May 2025 09:30

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.

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  • Tue 13 May 2025 09:30

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