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Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 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.

1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

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Mon 7 Nov 2022 09:00
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Music Played

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto in E flat Major, Op. 74: III. Allegro giocoso

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 3.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in E minor Op.28 no.4

    Music Arranger: Domi emorine. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Edouard Macarez. Performer: Félicien Brut.
    • The Paris Album: Le Père Lachaise - 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • Avi Avital Vivaldi.
    • DG.
    • 7.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Sounds of Sibelius: Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Saxophone Concerto Op.59 'Cyber-bird' (Bird in the Wind)

    Performer: Nobuya Sugawa. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

  • Nicola Porpora

    Alto Giove (Polifemo)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • ERATO.

  • Ester Mägi

    Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ada Kuuseoks. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arvo Volmer.
    • Magi: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 4.

  • Marianna Martines

    Overture [Symphony] in C major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • Oh, Boy!.
    • ERATO.
    • 6.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Agony - Concert Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Frankl Strobel.
    • CPO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV.232 (Sanctus)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Sigur Rós

    Fljótavik

    Music Arranger: Guy Button. Ensemble: Dmitri Ensemble. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Reference Recordings.

  • Charlie Parker

    Yardbird Suite

    Ensemble: Charlie Parker Septet.
    • Charlie Parker 1945-1947.
    • Classics.
    • 8.

  • Traditional Persian

    Ascending Bird

    Music Arranger: Colin Jacobsen. Music Arranger: Siamak Aghaei. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Golijov: Azul.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Vardapet Komitas

    Hymn for Maundy Thursday

    Performer: Jan Garbarek. Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • Officium Novum: Hilliard Ensemble/Jan Garbarek.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 8.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird (Finale)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Let the Bright Seraphim from Samson, HWV 57

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Singer: Kathleen Battle. Conductor: John Nelson. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
    • Baroque Duet.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • Debussy: Sonatas and Piano Trio.
    • Erato.
    • 11.

  • Emilio de' Cavalieri

    O che nuovo miracolo

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • John Luther Adams

    Canticles of the Holy Wind (Sky with Four Suns)

    Choir: The Crossing. Conductor: Donald Nally.
    • John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Holy Wind.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, Kk.551

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

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

Broadcast

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