Georgia Mann | BBC Radio 3 Broadcaster

Published: July 7, 2021, 5 a.m.

We speak to Radio 3 broadcaster and producer Georgia Mann, who recently took over the reins on the station\u2019s morning programme, Essential Classics. She tells us all about the new musical discoveries she\u2019s made so far in the job, her experiences of live music during lockdown, starting out as a singer in Gilbert & Sullivan musicals and how to be articulate live on radio when a performance blows you away.\nRecordings featured:\nMiles Davis: Lift to the Scaffold\nTrad: Blow the wind southerly (Sheku Kanneh-Mason)\nBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 \u2018Path\xe9tique\u2019 (Igor Levit)\nPeggy Granville-Hicks: Sinfonia Pacifica (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Richard Mills)\nRuth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Rumon Gamba)\nHannah Peel: Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula\nBach: Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude (Yo-Yo Ma)\nRossini: The Barber of Seville \u2013 Largo et Factotum (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vittorio Gui & Sesto Bruscantini)\nVerdi: Requiem: Dies Irae (London Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis\nElla Fitzgerald: Cheek to Cheek\nSerge Gainsbourg: Les goemons\nMozart: Laudate Dominum (Felicity Palmer, Choir of St John\u2019s College Cambridge, The Wren Orchestra/George Guest)\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices