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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.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 9 Feb 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes (Departures)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 4 in G major, BWV 1069 (Overture)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 13.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Rondo in C minor

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Bach: The Art of Life.
    • DG.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Al lume delle stelle

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgré lui: Danse slave

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Three Essays: Third Essay 'Ruby'

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Caroline Shaw: Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence Op.70, arr. for string orchestra: 4th mvt; Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene. Director: oyvind Gimse.
    • Souvenir Part II.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance No.3: Very lightly, like a harp

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Samuel Scheidt

    Paduana Dolorosa a 4

    Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris. Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K 136 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra Müllejans.
    • Mozart: Divertimenti etc: Freiburger Barockorchester/Mullejans.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang I "Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus", D 837

    Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Anna Lucia Richter.
    • Heimweh: Schubert Lieder.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 5 'Egyptian' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5.
    • BIS.
    • 303.
  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction & Allegro

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Marcel Lanquetuit

    Toccata in D major

    Performer: Gillian Weir.
    • PRIORY.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Will the sun forget to streak (Solomon)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Laurence Cummings.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    IBM1401 Processing Unit (excerpt)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Klemens.
    • CAD.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Capriccio (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Manning Sherwin

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster. Music Arranger: Tom Poster.
    • The Jukebox Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Decca.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 4 voices (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd.
    • DECCA.
    • 19.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
  • Robert Johnson

    Almayne II

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth.
    • Avie.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier (Final Scene)

    Singer: Régine Crespin. Singer: Helen Donath. Singer: Yvonne Minton. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • R.Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier.
    • DECCA.
    • 13-14.

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  • Thu 9 Feb 2023 09:00

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