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The very best of classical music

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

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

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 May 2024 09:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Music Arranger: Edward Benson Powell. Music Arranger: Gus Levene. Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners: Previn, Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rinaldo Suite (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in C major K.515 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Quatuor Ébène. Ensemble: Antoine Tamestit.
    • Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516.
    • ERATO.
    • 4.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Toccatina Op.36

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 20.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Bishop Rock

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture Burlesque TWV.55:B8 (extracts)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Music Arranger: Timothy Walker. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • An Orkney Wedding.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.11 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Federico García Lorca

    Sevillanas del siglo VXII (Canciones espanolas antiguas)

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'océan

    Ensemble: Bertrand Chamayou.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del Gracioso

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor RV.156

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto

    Performer: Simon Höfele. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Simon Hofele - Standards.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Parysatis - incidental music: Airs de ballet

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 202.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches No.1 - High wind

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams - Sea Sketches etc..
    • Lyrita.
    • 13.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op.91)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: BBC National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Deo Gratias

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 004.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Apres un reve

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major Op.48, rev. from Op.5: 1st mvt; Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • Poulenc, Prokofiev & Britten: Sinfoniettas.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Festival Overture Op.52

    Ensemble: Swedish Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 0-9 – Wagner: Orchestral Music.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 32.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in F Minor Op 55 no.1

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.

  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Ach, dass ich Wassers g'nug hätte (Arr. Spindler)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Music Arranger: Matthias Spindler. Ensemble: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Bach Generations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso, Op 14

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English suite no.2 in A minor BWV.807 (Bourree)

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 203.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 May 2024 09:30
    BBC Radio 3

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