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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, 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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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    La Réjouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 22.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Village Scene by the Inn

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp K.299 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Lady Luck

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra.
    • JW Vault - Summer and Space.
    • JW Vault.
    • 16.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Song of the Shrine (Enchantment, No 2)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • Navona.
    • 12.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Weber Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 3 (Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Marlene Cummins

    Starting Over

    Ensemble: Ensemble Offspring.
    • Women of Note Vol. 5.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 14.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (La vida breve)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Falla: La Vida Breve: Lopez-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony Orchstra.
    • Telarc.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    I Pastori [The Shepherds]

    Singer: Hanna Hipp. Performer: Emma Abbate.
    • RESONUS.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen, Act 4 (Symphony - Sonata while the sun rises)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Lady Luck

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra.
    • JW Vault - Summer and Space.
    • JW Vault.
    • 16.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op 38 (3rd mvt, Scherzo vivace)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • DIVOX.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b (4th mvmt, Andante)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - American Suite.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX.
    • 3.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Apotheosis of Fevronia (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - suite)

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 204.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Lady Luck

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra.
    • JW Vault - Summer and Space.
    • JW Vault.
    • 16.
  • Duke Ellington

    I'm just a lucky so-and-so

    Singer: Louis Armstrong. Orchestra: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Masterminds at Work.
    • Music Today Records.
    • 7.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Frank Renton.
    • Classic Brass.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 4.
  • Frank Loesser

    Luck be a lady

    Singer: Frank Sinatra.
    • Nothing But The Best (2008 Remastered).
    • FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE.
    • 4.
  • Léo Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Myleene's Music for Mothers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Flute Sonata in F major (1st mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Jean Bregnac. Performer: Jennifer Hardy. Performer: Yoann Moulin.
    • Liebe Amalia….
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan - Overture Op.62

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Sgambati

    Piano Quintet No 2 in B flat major, Op 5 (3rd mvmt, Andante sostenuto)

    Performer: Francesco Caramiello. Ensemble: Ex Novo Quartet.
    • Sgambati: Piano Quintet No. 2.
    • ASV.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor (Sanctus)

    Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Anna Clyne

    Dance (Cello Concerto')

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Avie.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D major

    Orchestrator: Albert Parlow. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • Olivia Belli

    Limina Luminis

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Firedove.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (3rd mvmt, Scherzo and Trio)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • LINN.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Cascades (Rag)

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 015.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No 7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op.26

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

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