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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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Tue 10 Jan 2023 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Finale (Le carnaval des animaux)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Ayla Sahin. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Alasdair Malloy. Performer: Konya Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca 4851156.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A major RV.552 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Amy Beach

    Bal masque

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 1.
    • Guild.
    • 12.

  • Philip Glass

    Evening Song (Satyagraha)

    Singer: Douglas Perry. Orchestra: New York City Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Keene.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: John Fiore.
    • Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 101.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue Op.10

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Allegro & Alla hornpipe (Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349)

    Music Arranger: Eric Sleichim. Music Arranger: Reitze Smits. Performer: Reitze Smits. Ensemble: Bl!ndman.
    • Water & Fire: Handel Revisited.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (Cathedrals)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 304.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Caprice viennois Op.2

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Lambert Orkis.
    • DG.

  • Anna Meredith

    Midi

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • LYS.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dove sono (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Sonya Yoncheva. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 54.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Schauspiel Overture Op.4

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words, Op 109

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 36.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Dio, che nell'alma infondere (Don Carlos)

    Singer: José Carreras. Singer: Piero Cappuccilli. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Opera Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Spartacus (Adagio)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Great British TV Themes.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 23.

  • Earl Robinson

    The Ballad of Joe Hill

    Singer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Alan Booth.
    • VANGUARD.

  • Johann Strauss

    Radetzky March

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Walzer Revolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E Major BWV.1053 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Masato Suzuki. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan.
    • Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 401.

  • Claude Debussy

    La damoiselle élue

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy – Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto in A minor Op.102 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Brahms: Famous Pieces.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 701.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Pavane (4 Piano Solos)

    Music Arranger: William Fox. Performer: William Fox.
    • Cecilia McDowall: Organ Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 801.

  • John Rutter

    Mass of the Children (Sanctus and Benedictus)

    Choir: Cantate Youth Choir. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G Major Op.77 no.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Ambronay.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Violin Concerto in D Major (Hootenanny)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Decca.

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