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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 – 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

Wed 11 Jun 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Frank Bridge

    Spring Song (4 Short Pieces)

    Performer: Steven Doane. Performer: Barry Snyder.
    • Bridge Records.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Tantum ergo

    Performer: James O’Donnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Gabriel Fauré: Essential Works.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 31.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: August Stradal. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Concerto for 3/4 recorders, strings & continuo (S.211)

    Performer: Pieter Brulleman. Performer: Baldrick Deerenberg. Performer: Sabine d'Hont. Performer: Barbara Karst. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G: Rondo all' ongarese

    Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios: Trio Fontenay.
    • Teldec.
    • 9.
  • Gang Chen

    The Butterfly Lovers Concerto: vii. Adagio cantabile

    Composer: Zhanhao He. Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Tsung Yeh. Ensemble: Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 83 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Brahms - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Franz von Suppé

    Light Cavalry (Overture)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury.
  • Franz Liszt

    Kling leise, mein Lied S.301

    Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: James Lockhart.
    • Strauss Lieder avec piano Sawallisch.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 22.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 36 in C major, K 425, 'Linz' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphonies; SCO; Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
    • 6.
  • Filipe de Magalhães

    Exsurge, quare obdormis Domine?

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Magalhães: Missa Veni Domine & Missa Vere Dominus est.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Shrovetide Fair (Petrushka)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Scenes de Ballet, Berliner Phil, Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Prelude and Fugue E flat major, Op 99 No 3

    Performer: Joachim Dorfmüller.
    • Saint-Saens, C.: Organ Music.
    • Capriccio.
    • 1.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Phaëton (Chaconne in G major)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Blow, Corelli, Finger, Marini: Chaconne: Musica Antiqua Koln.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • John Tavener

    Butterfly Dreams (excerpt)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth - Suite No 2: Moths and Butterflies (Dance)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 10.
  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2 (No 9 in B flat minor)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Schumann: Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Papillons: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly: Act I (conclusion)

    Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DECCA.
  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin (Le Triomphe de la Republique)

    Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • James Galway - Celebrating 70 - A collection of Personal Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Two Roses (In the midst of nature)

    Performer: Mengjie Han.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Concerto a 8 in G major ZWV.186 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704.
    • Zelenka: Komposizione per Orchestra.
    • Supraphon.
    • 10-12.
  • John Ireland

    Concertino Pastorale (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah: Sarah Chang.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorak: Complete Symphonies and Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Choir: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Panorama: Famous Overtures.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Louis Vierne

    Naiades

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Firedove.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Farrenc: Symphony No. 2 - Overtures Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 3.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in Jazz Style Op.53 (no.17)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Erato.

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