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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.

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Music Played

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Scott Joplin

    Solace "A Mexican Serenade"

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies - More Favourite Encores.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.
  • Mel Bonis

    Le R锚ve de Cl茅op芒tre

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Jubilate Deo

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Ensemble: Nuova Musica. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Arnold Bax

    In a Vodka Shop

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Bax: Piano Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 06.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Overture in A minor

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Kuolema: King Christian II.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Opp. 25, 26 & 60: Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Debussy - Complete Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte K.588)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Studt.
    • Naxos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in B minor, Op 25 No 10

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 22.
  • Andreas Kirchhoff

    Sonata 谩 6

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Ich bin die Auferstehung: Buxtehude & His Copenhagen Connections.
    • Dacapo.
    • 701.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight (Arr. Mackay)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Elspeth Mackay. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Sinfonietta (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Korngold: Sinfonietta: Andrew Litton.
    • Dorian.
    • 2.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Song of a Nightclub Proprietress (from Five Betjeman Songs)

    Performer: Robert Tear. Performer: Philip Ledger.
    • Meridian.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Champagne Polka

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Champagne and Laughter: The Music of Johann Strauss II.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes: Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV211, "Coffee Cantata"

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Singer: Stephan Schreckenberger. Singer: Makoto Sakurada. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: The Secular Cantatas.
    • BIS.
    • 210.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Trumpet Concerto in C Minor (Adagio)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: K氓re Nordstoga.
    • Magical Memories.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.7 in E major (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Hanns Eisler. Music Arranger: Erwin Stein. Music Arranger: Karl Rankl. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • The Chamber Music Arrangements.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 103.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Les champs (Lieux retrouves)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • HYPERION.
  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Sett No. 7 in A

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No. 4

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bereite dir, Jesu (Cantata BWV 147)

    Singer: Brigitte Geller. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 22.
  • Robert Schumann

    3 Romanzen, Op.94'2; Einfach, innig

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 2.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 3: Ritournelle)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 13.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Valse; Mazurka (Copp茅lia)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

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