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Thursday - Georgia's classical alternative

Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including the next of our American Portraits, music complementing Radio 3's series, ‘The Way I See It’. Also featuring listener requests.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 24 Oct 2019 06:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Barbara Strozzi

    O Maria (Sacri musicali affetti, Libro 1)

    Singer: María Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Barbara Strozzi.
    • l'empreinte digitale.
    • 16.

  • Josef Suk

    Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a

    Ensemble: Albion Quartet.
    • Dvořák: String Quartet Nos. 5 & No. 12, "American - Suk: Meditation.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op 120 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug (Cantata No 82)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Choir: Berliner Motettenchor. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Karl Ristenpart. Conductor: Karl Ristenpart.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ferde Grofé

    Niagara Falls Suite; Honeymooners

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William T. Stromberg.
    • Naxos.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Quatuor Varèse.
    • 1893.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV 204

    Performer: Alan Loveday. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Wagner

    Träume (Wesendonck Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Felix Mottl. Singer: Cheryl Studer. Ensemble: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Claude Debussy

    Préludes, Book 1 - La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr. for brass septet)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 5.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sinfonia in B minor, Wq 182 No 5

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Herbert Howells

    The Lord is my Shepherd (Hymnus paradisi)

    Singer: Joan Rodgers. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Howells: Hymnus Paradisis - A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor, D 915

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 9.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op 96

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No.2 etc: Royal Philhamonic Orchestra/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Stephen Sondheim

    The little things you do together (Company)

    Singer: Debra Monk. Singer: Boyd Gaines. Singer: Kate Burton. Singer: Robert Westenburg. Singer: Patricia Ben Peterson. Singer: Jonathan Dokuchitz. Singer: Diana Canova. Singer: John Hillner. Singer: Veanne Cox. Singer: Danny Burstein. Singer: Timothy Landfield. Singer: La Chanze. Singer: Charlotte d'Ambroise. Singer: Jane Krakowski. Orchestra: Stage Band. Conductor: David Loud.
    • Angel.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in D, K593: i: Larghetto - allegro

    Performer: Arpad Gérecz. Performer: Max Lesueur. Ensemble: Grumiaux Trio.
    • Complete String Quintets.
    • Philips.
    • 9.

  • Asha Srinivasan

    Mercurial Reveries 1

    Performer: Michael Mizrahi.
    • Currents.
    • New Amsterdam Records.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D major, H.16.51

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jim Fowler

    Chasing Shadows (Diggs Nightcrawler - original game soundtrack)

    Ensemble: Studio Band.
    • Diggs Nightcrawler (Original Soundtrack).
    • Moonbiot Studios.
    • 14.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, 'Organ Symphony' (Finale)

    Performer: Anthony Newman. Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Tone Poems: Pittsburgh Symphony/Maazel.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • LINN.

  • Nina Simone

    Cotton Eyed Joe

    • Nina Simone At Town Hall.
    • Pye International.

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