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Essential Classics at Glastonbury 2025

Georgia Mann with glorious classical music, including a set recorded live at Glastonbury Festival 2025 - featuring electrifying performances from special guest Abel Selaocoe.

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 4 Jul 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bizet, Carmen - Duets and Arias: Bocelli/Domashenko/Mei/Terfel.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos No 5: Perahia/Haitink.
    • CBS.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (St John Passion, BWV 245)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Sacred Choral Works: Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in G flat major Op.70 no.1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 11.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.
  • Robert Walker

    As the Apple Tree

    Choir: Royal Holloway Choir, University of London. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Choral Music - Byrd / Victoria / Weelkes / Part / Holst / Jackson, G. / Bruckner.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Sonata No 4 in G minor (mvts 6-8)

    Ensemble: Musica Fiorita. Conductor: Daniela Dolci.
    • Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Chamber Music.
    • Pan Classics.
    • 6-8.
  • Charles Gounod

    Cavatine (Faust's aria) from Faust

    Singer: Ștefan Pop. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Maurizio Benini.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.12 in F major, Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Die zwei blauen Augen (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)

    Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Christian Gerhaher.
    • Christian Gerhaher: Mahler Lieder.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 9.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Lamentatio

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Ensemble: Sarband. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.6 in D flat major)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Church Bells Beyond the Stars

    Performer: John Kitchen.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Trad.

    I will give my love an apple

    Performer: Edin Karamazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Wayfaring Stranger.
    • DECCA.
    • 7.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance for strings, Op 11

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Director: Jonathan Morton.
    • WIGMORE HALL.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Author: William Barnes. Singer: Janet Baker.
    • The Very Best Of: Janet Baker.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Dum complerentur (Part I)

    Choir: The London Oratory Schola Cantorum. Conductor: Charles Cole.
    • HYPERION.
  • Harry Burleigh

    Southland sketches, No 4 (arr. for wind quintet)

    Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet. Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis.
    • An American Rhapsody.
    • Pentatone.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fairest isle (King Arthur)

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Erato.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Lizst, Ravel.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Max Richter

    Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Spring 1, Recomposed by Max Richter

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: André de Ridder.
    • Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.3 in C Major BWV.1009 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Deo Gratias

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 004.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.3 in C Major BWV.1009 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides, Op 26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Bluebird

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Klemens.
    • Evolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Abel Selaocoe

    Improvisation

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.
  • Herbert Howells

    Requiem: VI. I heard a voice from Heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 116.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Joie du sang des étoiles (Turangalîla-Symphonie)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Hyperion.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major for trumpet and violin (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Friedemann Immer. Performer: Reinhard Goebel. Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • Concertos pour Instruments à Vent (Ensemble : Musica Antiqua Köln - Direction :.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 22.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Leonard Bernstein: A Portrait.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jul 2025 09:30