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Your perfect classical playlist

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

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.

1200 “25 for 25: Sounds of the Century” – 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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 10 Jul 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Fantasy Overture on Tom Bowling Op.115

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from the British Isles Vol 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Dorothy Howell

    The Moorings

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Dutton.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 (4th mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.
  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Herbert Howells

    I love all beauteous things

    Performer: Eleanor Kornas. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Howells: Collegium Regale.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    3 Klavierstücke, D. 946: No. 3 in C Major. Allegro

    • Schubert: Piano Sonata D. 960; 3 Klavierstücke D. 946.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in D minor, RV 63, 'La Follia'

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Pachelbel/Bach/Handel/Vivaldi: Musica Antiqua Koln.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 7.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berlioz: La damnation de Faust.
    • Lso Live.
    • 3.
  • Amy Beach

    A Mirage (2 Songs Op.100)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Romantic Chamber Group of London.
    • BIS.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Adagio con variazioni, P. 133

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Dvorak/Respighi.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartet (The Jovial One)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol 3.
    • Azica.
    • 6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.28 in E Major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 105.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Nightingales (7 Partsongs, Op 17)

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo capriccio in G major Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Frederica von Stade. Singer: Jules Bastin. Orchestra: Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Alain Lombard.
    • ERATO.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    12 Études, Op. 8: No. 4 in B Major (Piacevole)

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Scriabin: Vers la flamme.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Vasks: Laudate Dominum.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Strauss: Orchestral Works: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Decca.
  • Øyvind Torvund

    Among the Clouds

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Flanders Opera Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kristiina Poska.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2).
    • Fuga Libera.
    • 3.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Die Nacht (from Eichendorff-Lieder)

    Singer: Florian Boesch. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • LINN.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Vineta (6 Songs, Op.42)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Director: Marcus Creed.
    • Brahms: Secular Choral Songs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Jul 2025 09:30