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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

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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  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz (Serenade for Strings)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 703.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.8 in F major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 401.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etude in C sharp minor Op.25 No.7

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: 脡tudes, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 19.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Beata Barbara - motet for 6 voices [1572]

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Valborg Aulin

    Parisian Scenes (No 3, Ballroom Scene)

    Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andr茅e: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for 2 violins RV.522 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Ensemble: Kammerorchester Basel. Performer: Emanuele Forni. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
    • Daniel Hope: My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet quintet in F sharp minor, Op.10 - 1st mvt, Allegro energico

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey

    Orchestrator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

  • Frank Bridge

    When most I wink

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Signum.

  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Concerto in D minor, TrV 110 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Conductor: Michael Collins. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Strauss: Concertante Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 008.

  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth. Performer: Gary Cooper. Performer: Mark Levy.
    • Kapsberger/Piccinini: 14 Silver Strings: Matthew Wadsworth.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 22.

  • Edward Elgar

    Severn suite for brass band (Op.87) in B flat or C major: Minuet

    Composer: Kenneth J. Alford. Composer: James Ord Hume. Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von N眉rnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 14.

  • Robert Schumann

    6 Studien in kanonischer Form, Op. 56: No. 4

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Howard Ferguson.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 116.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Waltz for the New Year's Ball (Waltz Suite)

    Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6, Op. 111 & Waltz Suite, Op. 110.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Django Reinhardt

    Minor Swing

    Composer: St茅phane Grappelli. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli. Performer: Django Reinhardt. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Djangology.
    • RCA Bluebird.
    • 5.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Two Pieces for Violin and Piano No. 2, Cort猫ge

    • 1919: Boulanger, Jan谩膷ek, Elgar & Debussy.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 6.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • William Tell and other favourites: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Kunzel.
    • Telarc.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Midsummer vigil - Swedish rhapsody no. 1 Op.19

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • CPO.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise Op.34`14

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky: Cello & Piano Works: Mork, Thibaudet.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Le villi, SC 60, Act I: Evviva i fidanzati!

    Lyricist: Ferdinando Fontana. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Singer: Boris Pinkhasovich. Choir: Bavarian Radio Chorus.
    • Puccini: Le villi, SC 60.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 102.

  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-danse (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 1 in D Minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos.
    • WARNER.
    • 1.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Remembering 2012

    Performer: Chaos String Quartet.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande Op.46 (At the Castle Gate)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Sibelius - Incidental Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 6 in F major, BWV 1057 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos: Rousset/AAM/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La clemenza di Tito (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Sir Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 14.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89: III. Allegretto moderato

    Performer: Michel Dalberto. Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Complete Erato Recordings.
    • Erato.
    • 173.

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