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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 29 Aug 2025 09:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 in D minor, Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Music Arranger: Jean-Christophe Masson.
    • Impressions parisiennes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Chandos.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene. Conductor: 脴yvind Gimse.
    • Souvenir, Pt. 1.
    • 2L.
    • 1.

  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n No 2

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • The Vienna Recital.
    • DG.
    • 16.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes (Departures)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Shostakovich, D.: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 9.
    • Capriccio.
    • 3.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet: Nos. 1, 4. 3

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles.
    • Ligeti: Six Bagatelles, Chamber Concerto & Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (Live).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas no.1 arr Parhamovsky

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Vag Papian. Ensemble: Virtuosi.
    • Vengerov and Virtuosi.
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Alfred Bachelet

    Chere nuit

    Performer: Florian Caroubi. Singer: Ad猫le Charvet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Piano Concertos K.503 and K.466.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes from Flight: Departures

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    C茅phale et Procris (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln.
    • Coviello Classics.

  • Franz Liszt

    The Dance in the Village Inn (Mephisto Waltz No 1)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Deutsche Grammophone.

  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D. 343

    Performer: James Baillieu. Lyricist: Johann Georg Jacobi. Singer: Benjamin Appl.
    • Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurt谩g.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.

  • John Adams

    Landing Of The Spirit Of '76 (Nixon in China)

    Choir: St. Luke's Choir. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Nixon In China.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 26 "Les adieux" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Beethoven 32, Vol. 7: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23-26.
    • Naxos.
    • 402.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Waltz Theme (Murder on the Orient Express)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • John Blow

    Chaconne in G major

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.

  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op 27 No 4 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Roman Simovi膰.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 7 in D Minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.

  • Scott Joplin

    Peacherine rag for piano

    Performer: Benjamin Loeb.
    • Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D major, RV 589

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Katharine Gowers. Singer: Margaret Cameron. Singer: Lucy Ballard. Singer: Elinor Carter.
    • Vivaldi: Gloria, Handel: Gloria, Dixit Dominus: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 1-11.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    • MCA Records.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • H. Berlioz: Overtures: LSO/Previn.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Giovanni Croce

    In spiritu humilitatis for 8 voices

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B Minor 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Path茅tique".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Aug 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3