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The best classical morning 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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Wed 27 Aug 2025 09:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple symphony Op.4 (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    10 Pi猫ces pittoresques (no.10)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.

  • Marco Uccellini

    Sonate, arie et correnti, Op.3 (Aria quinta sopra la Bergamasca)

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
    • Deutsche HM.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Novelettes, Op.15: No.5 All'Ungherese

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • LONDON.

  • John Adams

    Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.82 in C major H.1.82 'The Bear' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 212.

  • Mel Bonis

    Le R锚ve de Cl茅op芒tre

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Gidon Kremer.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Trois Chansons de Bilitis, No. 2: La Chevelure

    Performer: Florian Caroubi. Lyricist: Pierre Lou每s. Singer: Ad猫le Charvet.
    • Belle 茅poque !.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

  • Frank Bridge

    Two Entr'actes: Rosemary

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse m茅lancolique (Suite No 3 in G major, Op 55)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky: Complete Orchestral Suites: Stuttgart RSO, Marriner.
    • Brilliant.

  • Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri

    Violin Concerto in G major, Op 1 No 2, 'Tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue Op.10

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Atalanta (Overture)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve regina

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance: Music for Inner Peace.
    • Universal.
    • 18.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Sonata in G Minor, "Devil's Trill": III. Allegro assai

    Performer: Ray Chen. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Virtuoso.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To a Devil

    Performer: James Baillieu. Lyricist: Otto Benzon. Singer: Benjamin Appl.
    • Forbidden Fruit.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 23.

  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: J.A.C. Redford. Music Arranger: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Je n'aime pas le violon, mais 莽a j'aime bien !.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

  • Enrique Granados

    El pelele (Goyescas Op.11)

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K.270 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists. Performer: William Stafford.
    • Linn.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde Overture

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in B Minor Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Henri Duparc

    L'invitation au voyage

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Johanna Wallroth.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano and Violin Concerto, Op. 17 - 2nd movement

    Performer: Herbert Schuch. Performer: Mirijam Contzen. Performer: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Sony.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV 156

    Performer: Midori Seiler. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Vivaldi: Double Concertos: Academie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 404.

Broadcast

  • Wed 27 Aug 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3