The very best of classical music
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.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1200 鈥�25 for 25: Sounds of the Century鈥� 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.
1230 Album of the Week
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Malcolm Arnold
Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 (No 1, Strathspey)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
- Chandos.
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L茅o Delibes
Copp茅lia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Famous Ballet Music.
- Brilliant Classics.
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Anna Bon di Venezia
Flute Sonata No. 6 in G
Performer: Vladimir Soares. Performer: Fabian Grosch.- Anna Bon: Sonatas para Flauta Op. 1.
- Tratore.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Robert Russell Bennett
Schottische (Suite of Old American Dances)
Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Chandos.
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Claude Debussy
La Cathedrale engloutie (Preludes)
Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.- Decca.
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Emilie Mayer
Piano Concerto in B flat - 3rd mvt: Allegro
Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Orchestra: Neubrandenburger Philharmonie. Conductor: Sebastian Tewinkel.- Capriccio.
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Philip Glass
Akhnaten (The City)
Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.- CBS.
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Andrea Falconieri
Folias echa para mi Senora Dona Tarelilla de Carallenos
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
- Alia Vox.
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Agatha Backer-Grondahl
Sildig (Op.17 No.7)
Performer: Anne Le Bozec. Singer: Karen Vourc'h.- Agathe Backer Gr酶ndahl: Songs & Piano Works.
- 础辫补谤迟茅.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sadko Op.5
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Milton Katims.- Discover Rimsky-Korsakov.
- Basilica Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words, Op 30 No 6
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Sony.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417
Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- Mozart: Horn Concertos.
- BIS.
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Jean Sibelius
Serenade for Violin and Orchestra in G minor, Op.69 No.2 (Lento assai)
Performer: Julian Rachlin. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Sony Classical.
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Alan Stivell
Ys
Performer: Alan Stivell.- Renaissance Of The Celtic Harp.
- [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue.
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脡douard Lalo
Puisqu'on ne peut (Le Roi d'Ys)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Ensemble: Bavarian State Orchestra. Director: Bertrand de Billy.- L'Opera Kaufmann.
- Sony Classical.
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Modest Mussorgsky
The Old Castle (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
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Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅
La catedral (3rd mvt)
Performer: Thibaut Garcia.- ERATO.
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George Frideric Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.- A Baroque Feast (Extended).
- Analekta.
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Robert Schumann
Genoveva (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Trad.
Shenandoah
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott. Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw.- Songs of Comfort and Hope.
- Sony Classical.
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Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re
Octet in D (Finale)
Performer: Florian Donderer. Performer: Hanna Weinmeister. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Byol Kang. Performer: Gergana Gergova. Performer: Alban Gerhardt.- Gli猫re, Shostakovich & Hahn.
- CAvi-music.
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Anna Clyne
The Eye
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon. -
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Sir Hamilton Harty
With the Wild Geese
Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.- Naxos.
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)
Performer: Paco de Luc铆a. Orchestra: Orquestra de Cadaqu茅s. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.- PHILIPS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: David Fray. Music Arranger: Gy枚rgy Kurt谩g.- Four Hands.
- Warner Classics.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Siege of Corinth (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Rossini: Overtures.
- Warner Classics.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major, RV 572, 'Il Protea 貌 sia il modo al rovescio'
Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Neil McLaren. Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: James Eastaway. Performer: Margaret Faultless. Performer: David Watkin. Performer: Paul Nicholson.- LINN.
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Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.- PentaTone classics.
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