Georgia Mann
@manngeorgia
Presenter of Essential Classics on BBC Radio 3. Confused parent. Opinions all mine and not those of the BBC.
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28-04-2010 12:02:55
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Guess who’s back on her escalator - and your 📻?! Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for some Country Gardens to start, Mendelssohn’s 🎻 Concerto, and our Playlister piece is Albeniz’s Merlin 🧙 Prelude, where could we head in an Arthurian manner from there? 🎶
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's Albeniz's Merlin prelude - which gives me a chance to post a pic of my favourite Merlin incarnation, care of Disney in 1963. Where next? More magic/wizards/Arthurian shenaigans?
Good morning from underneath these gorgeous flowers opposite BH! Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for a Rachmaninov 🎹 Prelude to start, Nicola Benedetti plays Bruch, the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 & Robert Pearsall’s Lay a Garland is in the Playlister 📻🎶👌
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 there's something choral and plaintive, Robert Pearsall's Lay a Garland. The text is from "The Maid’s Tragedy", where Aspasia realises that her betrothed has been forced into a marriage with the mistress of the king. Where next?
Morning! I’m supposedly going to the gym after the show…Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for some Grieg Holberg Suite to start, Faire is the Heaven, a jazzy Foxtrot from Shostakovich- and Blue Rose 🌹 by Elena Kats-Chernin is in the Playlister 📻🎶
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's Blue rose by Elena Kats-Chernin. she says it's: 'somewhat reminiscent of Balkan music. The title refers to the way the piece starts, unfolding and blooming as it slowly becomes stronger, like the blue light of dawn'. Where next?
Morning! Happy Friday - here’s some Pyrenean flowers I saw a couple of weeks back. Join us BBC Radio 3 for Gershwin’s 🎹 Concerto, Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Haydn’s Behold the ☀️ is in the Playlister - and the tango to end all tangos at 10.10 📻🎶👌❤️
Behold the ☀️! From Haydn’s The Seasons is our Playlister piece BBC Radio 3 This was a moment when we beheld it whilst in Greece. Where to next?
Morning! Here’s my cute baby niece! Join us BBC Radio 3 9.30 for Also Sprach Zarathustra to start, some Peter & the Wolf starring David Bowie, a Chopin Ballade & a Fat Knight from VW’s Sir John in Love in the Playlister. Join us! 👶👌❤️📻
He's big, he's a knight and he's been in a tavern near you....In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's The Fat Knight from Vaughan Williams opera Sir John in Love. Where next from that corpulent rogue?
Errrr morning! Grab an ☔️ & join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for Bach writing for 2 🎻s, Caroline Shaw’s And the Swallow, Elgar’s Salut d’amour, Murray Perahia plays Beethoven & Helen Leach’s Cup of Kindness is in the Playlister. Stay dry and join us ☕️ 📻👌
Our cup is overflowing in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's a piece called Cup of Kindness by Helen Leach, inspired by the Robert Burns line: 'we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet'. Where next? More kindness and blessings? Another vessel overflowing? Tell us!
Bit brooding out there today…Morning! We’ll brighten things up BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for the Lezghinka from Gayane, a Chopin Prelude, Uuno Klami’s Cobblers on the Heath is in the Playlister & a 👌Handel Organ Concerto @ 10.10 📻☕️🎶
There's a load of cobblers in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 To be precise it's The Cobblers on the Heath by Uuno Klami - where next? More shoe-related stuff? Another repair in musical form? Or how about something else happening on a heath?
Stunning rehearsals for this afternoon’s BBC Proms from The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, they’re performing evening from Roderick Williams setting of The Lord’s Prayer to Beethoven, spirituals and a final number by Jacob Collier Listen 2.00 BBC Radio 3
