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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, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

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1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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Tue 3 Jun 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Nino Rota

    Nonetto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daishin Kashimoto. Performer: Joaqu铆n Riguelme Garc铆a. Performer: Claudio Boh贸rquez. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Fran莽ois Meyer. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Beno卯t de Barsony. Performer: Olivier Thiery.
    • Nino Rota: Chamber Music.
    • Alpha.
    • 9.
  • Helen Hopekirk

    Iona Memories: 4th mvt, A Twilight Tale

    Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.
    • Hopekirk: Piano Works.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Melchior Molter

    Concerto pastorale

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    4 English dances - set 2 Op.33 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Catrin Finch

    Celtic Concerto

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Ensemble: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Highland Spirit.
    • Decca.
    • 20-22.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 27 No 1, 'Quasi una fantasia'

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp.26, 27 & 49.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Partita - 1712 no. 3 in A major (Ciacona)

    Performer: Meret L眉thi. Ensemble: Les Passions de l鈥櫭俶e.
    • Spicy, "Exotic" Music for violin.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 36.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.
    • WARNER ELATUS.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets - 3: Daneman, Connolly, Padmore, Loges, Asti.
    • Hyperion.
  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    Variations on Paganini's Caprice no.24

    Music Arranger: Jacques Ysa每e. Ensemble: Ensemble Capriccio.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Credo)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 3.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.
  • Old Blind Dogs

    The Buzzard

    Ensemble: Old Blind Dogs.
    • LOCHSHORE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
    • HMV Classics.
    • 4.
  • Alice Coltrane

    Wisdom Eye

    Performer: Alina Bzhezhinska.
    • Eternity.
    • Warner Bros. Records.
    • 2.
  • Granville Bantock

    Celtic Symphony (4th and 5th mvts)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies, The Witch of Atlas: RPO/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4-5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Autumn)

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Piano Trio in D major (2nd mvt: Lento)

    Ensemble: Joachim Piano Trio.
    • Moeran: The 2 String Quartets; Fantasy-Quartet; Piano Trio.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 8.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Malambo (Estancia Op.8a)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV.645

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Songs Without Words: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Michel鈥怰ichard de Lalande

    Te Deum

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Arlette Steyer. Singer: Jean-Paul Fouch茅court. Singer: Fran莽ois Piolino. Singer: J茅r么me Corr茅as. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Delalande / Te Deum / Les Arts Florissants / Christie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    M茅ditation from Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42

    Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • My Days.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 16.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - II. Ging heut' Morgen 眉bers Feld

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2 (No 12, Finale)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Naxos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Solo E Pensoso.
    • Alpha.
    • 5.

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