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The ideal mix of classical music

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, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

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

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.174 'Ich liebe den Hochsten von ganzem Gemute' (Sinfonia concerto)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach - Cantatas Volume 50.
    • BIS.
    • 13.
  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bruch, Lalo: Little, RSNO, Handley.
    • EMI Eminence.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Valse nonchalante Op.110

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Dance (African Suite)

    Music Arranger: Chris Cameron. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Vidi Speciosam

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • STELLA: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections, Vol. 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • César Franck

    Sonata in A (4th mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
    • BIS.
    • 804.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Gondellied (Songs Op.1)

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn - Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No.1 in D major Op.11 - Finale: Rondo

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Ondine.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Song

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Roots.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Phaëton (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Phaeton - Lully.
    • APARTE.
    • 1.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Rite of Spring.
    • Signum.
    • 20.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    La lisonjera, Op. 50

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Come, Thou Goddess, Fair and Free (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players.
    • Handel: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato, 1740.
    • Winged Lion.
    • 8.
  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 42

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chopin: Piano works.
    • Chappell.
    • 10.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    Fritiof Suite: Prelude

    Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Hermann Bäumer.
    • Andrée: Symphony No. 1 in C Major & Fritiof Suite.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Offertorium (Requiem, Op 48)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Singer: Roderick Williams. Choir: The Sixteen.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2: Vogt, Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin (Le Triomphe de la Republique)

    Music Arranger: Charles Gerhardt. Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • James Galway - Celebrating 70 - A collection of Personal Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Baghdarsaryan

    Nocturne for Cello & Piano (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Anonymous)

    • Chant du menestrel.
    • Ars Produktion.
    • 10.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: IV. Finale. Presto non tanto

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • H. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique etc. :Jansons.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (Rodeo)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Copland.
    • BIS Records.

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