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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, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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Last on

Wed 24 Apr 2024 09:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Lezghinka (Gayaneh)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • ONYX.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Wiener Streichsextett.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Battalia

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Gade (Lyric Pieces) Op 57, No 2

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    O Maria, tu dulcis

    • Naive.

  • Michael Berkeley

    Music From Chaucer: No. 5, The Wakeful Poet

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • Pavans, Fantasias, Variations.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 6.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech suite, Op.39 (Sousedska)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Sony.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • EMI.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Notturno no.6 in G major, H.2.30

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Ensemble: L’Archibudelli.
    • Haydn: 8 Notturni for the King of Naples: Mozzafiato, L'Archibudelli.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Songs of Travel: 7. Whither Must I wander?

    Performer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • DG.

  • Michael Nyman

    Cornfield (Prospero's Books)

    Orchestra: Michael Nyman Band and Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Nyman.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2)

    Performer: Bernard Roberts.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira No 5

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Ensemble: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 5-6.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Poet's Echo Op. 76 no.6 Lines written during a sleepless night

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Louise Alder.
    • Chandos.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    Flute Sonatina, Op. 13: III. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Patrick Williams. Performer: Raphael Terroni.
    • Berkeley: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Anon.

    Angelus ad virginem

    Performer: Gothic Voices.
    • Nowell synge we bothe al and som.
    • Linn.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March (The Love for Three Oranges)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect fool - ballet music

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin.
    • Gustav Holst; St Paul's Suite etc; Choruses.
    • EMI.
    • 18.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D.898, Op. 99: II. Andante un poco mosso

    Performer: Raphaël Oleg. Performer: Sonia Wieder‐Atherton. Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert: Trios for Piano and Cello and Arpeggione Sonata.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    La Ronde des lutins, Op.25

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores.
    • Chandos.
    • 19.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fantaisie for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Works For Piano And Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os iusti

    Ensemble: Musica Saeculorum. Conductor: Philipp von Steinaecker.
    • FRA BERNARDO.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Mazovian Dance (arr. for brass ensemble by Jarle Storløkken)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Agrippina (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.10 for piano (no.3 in E major)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 24.

  • Aaron Copland

    Danzón cubano

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 18.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Apr 2024 09:30
    BBC Radio 3

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