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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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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.

1200 鈥�25 for 25: Sounds of the Century鈥� 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

1230 Album of the Week.

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  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Isa铆as S谩vio

    Batacuda

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Latino: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 Cori and Double Orchestra in F major, RV 584

    Performer: Mauro Lopes Ferreira. Performer: Francesca Vicari. Performer: Francesco Moi. Performer: Ignazio Schifani. Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: 蜜芽传媒 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.

  • William Alwyn

    Bicycle Ride

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets.
    • Cedille.
    • 3.

  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Matin sur l'eau (6 Pieces)

    Performer: Kyunghee Kim-Sutre.
    • La Harpe Consolatrice.
    • Hortus.
    • 1.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia: 1. Sopra l'acqua indormenzada

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Pietro Pagello. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
    • Helios.
    • 13.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Ivo Antognini

    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Lyricist: Emily Dickinson. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 100 in G major, 'Military' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 5.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    24 Preludes (Op. 28); No. 4 in E Minor

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Alice Sara Ott plays Chopin.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Umberto Giordano

    Fedora (Bicycle aria)

    Singer: Nino Machaidze. Singer: Fabio Capitanucci. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie. Conductor: Alberto Veronesi.
    • Umberto Giordano: Fedora.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Erik Satie

    Sports et Divertissements: Le Golf & Le Tennis

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Satie: Piano Music (Classic FM: The Full Works).
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 26.

  • John Powell

    Test Drive (From How To Train Your Dragon Music From The Motion Picture)

    Performer: Studio Orchestra. Lyricist: John Powell. Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.
    • How To Train Your Dragon (Music From The Motion Picture).
    • Varese Sarabande.
    • 11.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Wind Serenade Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Performer: Barbara Stegemann. Performer: Sharon Kam. Performer: Diemut Schneider. Performer: Stefan Schweigert. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Sibylle Mahni. Performer: Ozan 脟akar. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Hiroaki Aoe.
    • Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Op. 44 & String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106.
    • Cavi-Music.
    • 3.

  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse (3 Pieces Op.40)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Children's Cello.
    • BIS.
    • 17.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 2 in G Major "London" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 "London" & Symphony No. 8 in D Minor.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer; 2. Jeux de vagues

    Music Arranger: Sally Beamish. Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest HWV.258

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Eric Coates

    Music Everywhere (Rediffusion March)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Alan Menken

    The Bells of Notre Dame (From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Soundtrack)

    Music Arranger: Anna Lapwood.
    • Firedove.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: No. 1 in C Major: Moderato

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Piano Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 11.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: IIIa. Andante

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Locatelli: L'Arte del Violino 鈥� 12 Concertos, Op. 3.
    • Hyperion.
    • 54.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 Rhenish - II. Scherzo

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berlin Phil.

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