Refresh your morning with classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)
Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Tone Poems: Pittsburgh Symphony/Maazel.
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Entr茅e de Polymnie (Les Bor茅ades)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Archiv.
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Gustav Holst
The Perfect Fool (ballet music)
Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
- Chandos.
- 1-4.
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George Frideric Handel
Sinfonia 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)
Music Arranger: Michael Allen. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.- Legends: Canadian Brass.
- Opening Day Recordings.
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Elena Kats鈥怌hernin
Sunday rag for piano
Performer: Sarah Nicolls.- Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
- Signum Classics.
- 1401.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Previn, RPO.
- Telarc.
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William Byrd
Ave verum corpus
Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.- Upheld by Stillness.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 013.
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Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
- Decca.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Suite from 24 Melodies: I'm Troubled in Mind (America) Op 59'14
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Repper.- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L鈥橭uverture, Op. 46 - Ballade Op. 4 - Suites.
- AVIE Records.
- 6.
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Philip Glass
Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 2.
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Helena Munktell
Kleines Trio
Performer: Tobias Ringborg. Performer: Kristina Winiarski. Performer: Peter Friis Johansson.- Bis.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no.35 in D major K.385 'Haffner' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.- Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto.
- Pentatone.
- 101.
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Claude Debussy
Saxophone Rhapsody
Performer: Theodore Kerkezos. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Simonov.- Legende: Theodore Kerkezos.
- Onyx.
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Johann Strauss II
Morgenbl盲tter - Waltz Op.279
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA LIVING STEREO.
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George Gershwin
Promenade 'Walking the Dog'
Music Arranger: Hal Borne. Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.- Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Benjamin Britten
Sunday Morning (Peter Grimes)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Eduard van Beinum.- Britten: Spring Symphony, Four Sea Interludes - The Young Persons Guide to....
- Decca.
- 14.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Viva Verdi.
- Decca.
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Joseph Haydn
The Storm, H XXIVa 8
Choir: North German Radio Choir. Orchestra: Gottingen Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- Handel: Dettingen Te Deum: Nicholas McGegan.
- Carus.
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Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.- Vierne; Franck: Violin Sonatas.
- Hyperion.
- 10.
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Johan Svendsen
Norwegian rhapsody no.1 Op.17
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Svendsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1: Thorsen, BPO, Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.- OLYMPIA.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Performer: Mikl贸s Per茅nyi. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.- Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical.
- AVIE.
- 1.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
La sultane: Sonate en quatuor
Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Hector Berlioz
Le Corsaire (Overture)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.- RCA.
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Ruth Gipps
Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.20 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- CHANDOS.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- DECCA.
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- Thu 14 Aug 2025 09:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3