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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.

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.

1230 Album of the Week

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  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas no.1 arr Parhamovsky

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Vag Papian. Ensemble: Virtuosi.
    • Vengerov and Virtuosi.
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp K.299 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Scherzo in D minor

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Dances from Aleko & Scherzo in D Minor.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Ave virgo sanctissima

    Choir: London Oratory Schola Cantorum. Conductor: Charles Cole.
    • Sacred Treasures of Spain: Motets from the Golden Age of Spanish Polyphony.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Muzio Clementi

    12 Monferrinas, Op 49 No 7 in D major

    • Clementi: Capriccios & Variations for Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Spring Symphony, Part I (excerpt)

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Singer: Alice Coote. Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Choir: Tiffin Children's Choir. Choir: Tiffin Boys鈥� Choir. Choir: Tiffin Girls鈥� Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Frank Bridge

    Cello Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • The Cello in Wartime.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Pygmalion: Ouverture

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Rameau: Pygmalion & Les F锚tes de Polymnie.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 1.

  • Peter Warlock

    Benedicamus Domino (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

    Composer: Matthew Knight. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Christmas with Septura.
    • Naxos.
    • 1101.

  • Oswald von Wolkenstein

    Herz, Mut, Leib, Sel

    Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • Wolkenstein, Songs of Myself: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.4 in E minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • DECCA.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (1st mvt)

  • Sally Beamish

    Reckless

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • The Singing: Concertos and Orchestral Works by Sally Beamish.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Trad.

    Waltz after Lasse in Lyby

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Dacapo.
    • 004.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Performer: Alexander Ffinch. Music Arranger: Thomas Trotter.
    • DIVINE ART.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen: Thus the ever grateful Spring

    Singer: Rowan Pierce. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692.
    • Signum Records.
    • 37.

  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry Ripe

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ritual of the Rival Tribes; Dance of the Earth (The Rite of Spring)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 5.

  • Gerald Finzi

    It was a lover and his lass (Let us garlands bring, Op.18)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Bryn Terfel - 'The Vagabond': English Songs by Vaughan Williams; Butterworth.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Incidental Music to Eugene Onegin: Mazurka

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Prokofiev For Two.
    • DG.
    • 14.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S 232

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Heinichen: Dresden Concerti.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11-13.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.
    • Delibes: Sylvia & Coppelia: LSO/Fistoulari/Minneapolis SO/Dorati.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Favourite Beethoven.
    • DECCA.
    • 6.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Living Stereo Collection Box.
    • Sony.
    • 21.

  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck-Lieder

    Orchestrator: Felix Mottl. Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • DECCA.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F - 3rd mvt Allegro agitato

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • My American Story: North.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Sicut cervus

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Palestrina: Sicut cervus: I. Sicut cervus.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.1 in E minor Op.39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • DECCA.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricco Espagnol: Mackerras.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.

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