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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We have something really wild in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Tiger Tango from Robert Keane's
Save the Animals Suite. Where next? More tigers? Other animals taking to the dancefloor?
Good morning from this weirdly angled spot! Join us BBC Radio 3 for The Ride of the Valkyries to start, Waltonās Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, Pavarotti sings Verdiās La Donna e mobile & Robert Keaneās Tiger š Tango from his Save the Animals Suite in the Playlister. Happy Friday š»
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's the Overture from Albeniz's comic opera The Magic Opal. It's about a ring with the power to provoke immediate infatuation. There are pirates, ghosts, impossible love on the shores of Karatol. Where next?
Morning from the escalator! Join us ā¦BBC Radio 3ā© @ 9.30 for Dance of the Tumblerās from Snow Maiden, Beethovenās Spring Sonata, Albenizās The Magic Opal in the Playlister & Schubertās Du bist die Ruh @ 10.30. Grab a āļø & join us š»ā¤ļø
We've come over all poetic in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's by our very own Michael Berkeley
'The Wakeful Poet' from 'Music From Chaucer'. Many will know this as the Private Passions sig tune - tell us where next! Here's Chaucer as he actually was, and as played by Paul Bettany
Morning! Join us BBC Radio 3 for Lezginka from Gayaneh, Mozartās Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, a Battalia by Biber. Our Playlister is by Michael Berkeley & youāll recognise it from Private Passions, The Wakeful Poet from Music From Chaucer & Partās Spiegel im Spiegel @ 10.10 š»
The temperature is shooting upwards in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Florence Price's Tropical Noon from her Dances in the Canebrakes. A canebrake is a thicket of tall cane plants that grows at the marshy edge of a stream or lake, common in the Deep South. Where next?
Morning! Itās grey outside so hereās a cat called Nancy & a horse called Annie. Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for Milhaudās Scaramouche to start, Griegās Air from Holberg Suite, Borodinās Polovtsian Dances & Florence Priceās Tropical Noon in the Playlister āļøš» š¶
We're in one of the most picturesque regions of the UK in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's the Scherzo from Holst's Cotswold Symphony. Holst was organist and choirmaster at Wyck Rissington &conducted the choral society at Bourton-on-the-Water. Where next?
Morning! Join us ā¦BBC Radio 3ā© @ 9.30 for š Poll to start, Mozartās Ave Verum Corpus, Holstās Cotswolds Symphony in the Playlister - conducted by the late Sir Andrew Davis, Torkeās Javelin for Orchestra & Veronique Gens sings Faure @ 10.30 š»āļø
Morning! Behold! I was part of a winning quiz team last night! Join us ā¦BBC Radio 3ā© for more triumphant joy: Tchaikovskyās Sleeping Beauty waltz, Verdiās Force of Destiny Overture, Caroline Sawās āAnd the swallowā in the Playlister & a foxtrot with Shostakovich šš»āļø
Things are miraculously...fishy in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Cecilia McDowall's 'A Draught of Fishes', inspired by the New Testament story of Jesus suggesting to his disciples they would net more fish from the other side of the boat. Where next?
Morning! Itās āļø at BH! I have found a weird booth to blend intoā¦Join us BBC Radio 3 for Mozartās Music Joke, a š“ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó “ó æ Dance by Malcolm Arnold, Cecilia McDowallās A Draught of Fishes š is in the Playlister & Blessed is the Man from Rachmaninovās Vespers. Grab a āļø & join us š»
I'll be playing more from this excellent record which is my Album of the Week just after 12.30 - stay tuned for beautifully played tango BBC Radio 3 Thanks so much to London Tango Quintet
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's Janacek's The Little Owl has not Flown Away (from On an Overgrown Path). Janacek said these piano pieces: 'contain distant reminiscences.' In Czech folklore owls are birds of ill omen, so perhaps this reminiscence isn't a happy one...Where to?
Morning! Please enjoy these cheering spring šŗ Join us ā¦BBC Radio 3ā© @ 9.30 for Gluckās Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Palestrinaās Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra, Janacekās The Little š¦ has not flown away is in the Playlister & Lemminkainen will return @ 10.35 š» āļøā¤ļø