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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, including a serenade by Mozart.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five – Mozart's serenades are in the spotlight this week; we pick five of the best.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Wed 20 Oct 202109:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonio Salieri

    La scuola de' gelosi (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: l’arte del mondo. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Liaisons.
    • ONYX.
    • 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in E major D.157 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Papillon Op.77

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • HYPERION.

  • Charles Koechlin

    The Spring Running Op.95 (Night)

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • RCA.

  • Joby Talbot

    April: The First Day of Summer (Once Around the Sun)

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Rob Farrar. Performer: Manon Morris.
    • SONY.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Valse-fantasie in B minor

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets Russes: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Jarvi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 13.

  • Giuseppe de Bottis

    Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni (Lieti fiori, erbe odorose)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ERATO.

  • Francesco Provenzale

    Lo schiavo di sua moglie (Non posso far)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ERATO.

  • Daniel Kidane

    Aria Antica

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • James McMillan

    Christus vincit

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Performer: David De Winter. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Fanfare and Polonaise (War and Peace Suite)

    Orchestrator: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Prokofiev: War and Peace etc: Philharmonia Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Somebody Loves Me

    Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • I Got Rhythm.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata - 1697 no.1 in B minor Z.802

    Ensemble: Retrospect Ensemble.
    • LINN.

  • Hector Berlioz

    La mort d'Ophelie

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • DECCA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Manfred Symphony Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Decca.

  • Richard M. Sherman

    I Wanna Be Like You (From The Jungle Book)

    Composer: Robert B. Sherman. Singer: Louis Prima. Singer: Phil Harris. Performer: Bruce Reitherman.
    • MEIKA MUSIC.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 12.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Only Son (Kipling Jungle Book Cycle no.10, Kipling Settings no.21)

    Singer: Libby Crabtree. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Choir: Polyphony. Orchestra: Polyphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HELIOS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird (Finale)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Mons Leidvin Takle

    Yes!

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Northern Lights.
    • Hyperion.
    • 01.

  • Erik Satie

    Le Piccadilly

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.239 'Serenata notturna'

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate Notturne, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Geraldine Mucha

    The Tempest Overture

    Orchestra: Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser.
    • Macbeth And Other Orchestral Works.
    • ARCO DIVA.
    • 1.

  • Paul Simon

    The Sound Of Silence

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Music Arranger: Chris Trueman. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silence and Music

    Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Tsarina in a barrel at sea)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Faust

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Oct 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3