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The ideal mix of classical music

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

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

1230 Album of the Week

To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask 成人快手 Sounds to play Essential Classics鈥

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 4 Apr 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Wagner : Lohengrin.
    • Warner Classics International.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem, Op 45)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ALPHA.
  • Karl Goldmark

    Symphony No 1 in E flat "Rustic Wedding Symphony": V. Dance

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony - Hindemith: Symphony in E-Flat Major.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Ombres Errantes (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.25)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • William Byrd

    Earle of Oxford's Marche

    Music Arranger: Rolf Smedvig. Ensemble: Empire Brass. Performer: Gordon Bell.
    • King's Court and Celtic Fair.
    • Telarc.
    • 4.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz (Masquerade Suite)

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • RCA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in D major H.18.11 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Hyperion.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op 44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Christoph Traxler.
    • The Clarinet Trio Anthology.
    • Decca.
    • 35.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Gebet (M枚rike-Lieder)

    Singer: Juliane Banse. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Wolf: Prometheus.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • William Byrd

    CLIP: Earle of Oxford's Marche

    Music Arranger: Rolf Smedvig. Ensemble: Empire Brass. Performer: Gordon Bell.
    • King's Court and Celtic Fair.
    • Telarc.
    • 4.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes & bassoon in D (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frank Bridge

    String Sextet in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Jehan Alain

    Litanies

    Performer: Marie鈥怌laire Alain.
    • J. Alain: Litanies: Marie-Claire Alain.
    • Erato.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Earle of Oxford's Marche

    Music Arranger: Rolf Smedvig. Performer: Empire Brass. Performer: Gordon Bell.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Brideshead Revisted (title theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Burgon.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 92 in G major, 'Oxford' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos 92 and 93, 97-99.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.
  • William Walton

    Agincourt Song (from music for the film Henry V)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • EMI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    An Oxford Elegy (extract)

    Narrator: Rowan Atkinson. Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture and Suites from the Operas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K.370 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.
    • Mozart: Music for the Oboe.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Captain Blood (Main Title)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DG.
  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Adagio in D Major, WK 187

    Performer: Lucile Boulanger.
    • Bach & Abel: Solo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Dance [Juba])

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 10.
  • John Ireland

    Concertino pastorale (Toccata)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Ireland: A Downland Suite etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor (Sanctus, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem)

    Singer: Lucile Richardot. Singer: Emiliano Gonzalez鈥怲oro. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Sch枚n Rosmarin - Old Viennese Dance no.3

    Orchestrator: Clark McAlister. Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Naoko Tanaka.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    English Songs: The Faithful Maid "'Twas When the Seas Were Roaring"

    Singer: Malena Ernman. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Terra Mater.
    • ERATO.
    • 12.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Melancolie for piano

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud - Autograph.
    • Erato.
    • 19.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 9 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

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