Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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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Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- DG.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Aria (Bachiana brasileira No 5)
Singer: Juliane Banse. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.- South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
- EMI Classics.
- 7.
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Padre Antonio Soler
Fandango
Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- Los Pajaros Perdidos: L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar.
- Virgin Classics.
- 19.
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John Adams
Tromba lontana
Performer: Jonathan Holland. Performer: Wesley Warren. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Ottorino Respighi
Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
June, from Das Jahr
Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
- CPO.
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Josef Suk
Serenade for Strings Op.6 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Suk: Serenade fro Stings, Martinu: Sinfonietta Giocosa.
- Conifer.
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Thomas Ad猫s
Les tours de passe-passe (3 Studies from Couperin)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Thomas Ad猫s.- Ades: Tevot; Violin Concerto etc..
- EMI Classics.
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Franz Schubert
Im Abendrot, D799
Performer: Ammiel Bushakevitz. Singer: Katharina Konradi.- Berlin Classics.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Clark.- COLLINS CLASSICS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, Op 58 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, The Voyevoda: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orches.
- Naxos.
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Henry Purcell
Pavan 脿 4 in G minor
Ensemble: London Baroque.- Purcell: Chamber Music: London Baroque.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.- Vocalion.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Simple Prayer for Complex Times
Performer: Lara Downes.- Love at Last.
- Pentatone.
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Edvard Grieg
The Last Spring (2 Elegiac melodies Op.34)
Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Iona Brown.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Gerald Finzi
It was a lover and his lass (Let us garlands bring, Op 18)
Singer: Christopher Maltman. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- English Orchestral Songs: Maltman/蜜芽传媒 SSO/Brabbins.
- Hyperion.
- 18.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring Suite (1st mvt)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
- Sony Classical.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures from an exhibition (Tuileries)
Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
- EMI.
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Johann Pachelbel
Canon in D major arr for brass
Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.- Best of The Canadian Brass.
- CBS.
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Edward Elgar
Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- Halle.
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Arvo P盲rt
Lamentate (Pregando)
Performer: Alexei Lubimov. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrey Boreyko.- Arvo Part: Lamentate.
- ECM.
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Alice Tegn茅r
Herren 盲r min herde [The Lord is my shepherd]
Choir: Danderyds Vokalensemble. Conductor: Rikard Karlsson.- Tegn茅r & Nordqvist: S氓ng, v氓r s氓ng!.
- BIS.
- 1201.
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Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Performer: Dick Hyman.- Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
- RCA.
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Jean Sibelius
The Wood Nymph, Op 15
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.- Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 - The Wood Nymph - Valse Triste.
- Outhere Music France.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6
Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Robert Woolley. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op.6.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 021.
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Julie Cooper
Firedove
Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir.- Firedove.
- Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
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脡douard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21: V. Rondo. Allegro
Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 - de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20.
- Warner Classics.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Mazurka in B major, Op 56 No 1
Performer: Daniil Trifonov.- Decca.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade No.1 in D, Op.11 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Brahms: Serenades Op. 11 & Op. 16.
- Philips.
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