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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

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 our ensemble in focus is the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

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

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Tue 30 Aug 2022 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes (Departures)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alexander's Feast (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Orchestra: Stavanger Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Taedet animam meam

    Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto Andaluz (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Los Romeros. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • François Couperin

    Les Juméles [The Twins] (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 12)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto - ii) Rather fast

    Performer: Pierre Génisson. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
    • Swing - a Benny Goodman Story.
    • Aparte.
    • 03.

  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Storm - overture Op.76

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Ballaké Sissoko

    Chamber Music

    Composer: Vincent Ségal. Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Vincent Ségal.
    • Chamber Music.
    • NO FORMAT!.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    A la Valse (The Merchant of Venice)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Vivian Dunn.
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore - The Merchant of Venice Suite.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 213.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    (In meines Vaters Garten (5 Songs)

    Singer: Karen Cargill. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Lieder.
    • Linn.
    • 2.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Emilio Uranga

    El Rancho Grande

    Composer: Donald Reep. Performer: Snuff Garrett.
    • Master Classics Records.
    • 18.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Asturias [Leyenda] (Suite española no.1)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Miles Davis

    Will O' the Wisp (Sketches of Spain) [Remastered]

    • Sketches of Spain (Remastered).
    • Avid Entertainment.
    • 2.

  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • ELEKTRA/NONESUCH.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A Minor BWV.1065 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jeannette Sorrel. Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire.
    • Vivaldi: La Folia (Madness) & Other Concertos.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 11.

  • Amy Beach

    Violin Sonata in A minor Op.34 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger. Performer: Barbara Moser.
    • Ladies' Night.
    • Gramola.
    • 2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sinfonia no.3 in C major Wq.182`3 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Pulcinella Orchestra.
    • APARTE.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy Op.114

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • CONIFER.

  • Richard Strauss

    Romanze in F major

    Performer: Ophélie Gaillard. Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Julien Masmondet.
    • Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works.
    • Aparté.
    • 104.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Klaus Hampl. Ensemble: Quartetto di Roma.
    • Coleridge-Taylor & Ben-Haim: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Daniel Elder

    3 Nocturnes (Ballad to the Moon)

    Performer: Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Conductor: Joe Miller.
    • Westminster Choir College, Rider University.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto no.2 in E major BWV.1042 (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Xuefei Yang. Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • Bach Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Alexander Liebreich.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Munchener Kammerorchester/Liebreich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite no.2 in F major HWV.427 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • John Ireland

    Epic March

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • John Ireland Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Aug 2022 09:00
    BBC Radio 3

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