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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is British tenor Ian Bostridge. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers – this week we focus on British tenor Ian Bostridge.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Mon 28 Mar 2022 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frühlingslied (Lieder ohne Worte - book 5)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (Andras Schiff).
    • Decca.
    • 021.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La cambiale di matrimonio (Overture)

    Orchestra: Prague Sinfonia. Conductor: Christian Benda.
    • Naxos.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Octet Op.65 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Ensemble: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler.
    • Ruth Gipps: Winds of Change.
    • Three Worlds Records.
    • 8.

  • Herbert Howells

    H. H. his fancy (Lambert's clavichord)

    Performer: Julian Perkins.
    • Herbert Howells: Music for Clavichord.
    • Prima Facie.
    • 11.

  • Carl Czerny

    Symphony no.6 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
    • SWR Musik.

  • Rudolph Ganz

    Little Sphinx (2 Klavierstücke Op.31)

    Music Arranger: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Andrea Bischoff. Performer: Marie-Lise Schüpbach.
    • 2 Klavierstücke, Op. 31 (Arr. for 2 Oboes and Cor Anglais by Heinz Holliger).
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in C major K.580a

    Music Arranger: Nicholas Daniel. Ensemble: Britten Oboe Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Jauchzet dem Herrn

    Ensemble: Les Agrémens. Conductor: Jean Tubéry.
    • German Sacred Baroque Music - Christmas.
    • Ricercar.
    • 1.

  • Fiona Brice

    Prelude 10

    Performer: Fiona Brice.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in G major Op.40

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.3 in D major BWV.1054

    Performer: Fabio Bonizzoni. Orchestra: La Risonanza.
    • Harpsichord Concertos, Vol 2.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 7-9.

  • Anne Cawrse

    Advice to a Girl

    Author: Sara Teasdale. Singer: Bethany Hill. Performer: Cameron Hill. Performer: Helen Ayres. Performer: Martin Alexander. Performer: Ewen Bramble.
    • Advice to a Girl: Music by Anne Cawrse.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 9.

  • Luciano Berio

    Rendering [after Schubert] (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Berio - Realisations.
    • Chandos.
    • 001.

  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-danse (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    My Pretty Bess (5 Tudor Portraits)

    Singer: John Shirley‐Quirk. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy & Bess)

    Performer: Joe Pass.
    • Porgy & Bess.
    • Original Jazz Classics.
    • 4.

  • William Byrd

    Ye sacred muses

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Concordia.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations Op.36 (Variation 14, 'E.D.U.')

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Cockaigne: BBC SO, Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne Op.78

    Performer: Cocomi. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Sicilienne.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 1.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Hora

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Performer: Ian Rosenbaum.
    • Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020 Volume III.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Schwanengesang D.957)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Sinfonietta Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler.
    • Ruth Gipps: Winds of Change.
    • Three Worlds Records.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat major Op.45 no.3

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • PHILIPS ELOQUENCE.

  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Tomorrow's Song

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • The Glass Effect (The Music of Philip Glass & Others).
    • Masterworks.
    • 8.

  • Giuseppe Martucci

    Romance in A major Op.72 no.2

    Performer: Luigi Piovano. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Arcana.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Da tempeste il legno infranto (from Giulio Cesare)

    Performer: Emőke Baráth. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse. Conductor: Philippe Jaroussky.
    • Erato.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Surge propera amica mea

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Marcel Dupré

    Organ Symphony in G minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Michael Murray. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jahja Ling.
    • Dupré: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 25 - Rheinberger: Organ.
    • Telarc.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Mon 28 Mar 2022 09:00
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