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Great classical music for your morning

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

Last on

Tue 26 Aug 2025 09:30
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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing - Suite Op.11 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5-8.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.3 in F major

    Ensemble: La R锚veuse. Director: Benjamin Perrot.
    • MIRARE.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522: IV. Presto

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Purple (A Colour Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bliss: A Colour Symphony etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 001.

  • Kod谩ly Zolt谩n

    Romance lyrique

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    El Albaicin (Iberia - Suite)

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fern谩ndez Arb贸s. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Albeniz: Argerich, Barenboim.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Douglas Boyd. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Schneider.
    • Mozart, Vivaldi, Marcello, Wolf, J. Strauss: Schneider 80th Birthday Concert.
    • COE Records.
    • 009.

  • Madeleine Dubois

    Spleen

    Performer: Florian Caroubi. Lyricist: Paul Verlaine. Singer: Ad猫le Charvet.
    • Belle 茅poque !.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Camerata de Lausanne.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Souvenir De Florence: Camerata De Lausanne/Pi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major RV.558

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5

    Performer: Claire Huangci.
    • Rachmaninov: The Preludes.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Music: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Haitink.
    • Decca.

  • Quincy Jones

    The Color Purple; Main Title

    Composer: Jeremy Lubbock. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Joel Rosenbaum.
    • The Color Purple.
    • HIP-O (Geffen AM).
    • 2.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 18.

  • Michael Torke

    Purple (Ecstatic Orange)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Argo.

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Daniele Rosina.
    • Labyrinths.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in A major, BWV.234 (Gloria; Et in terra pax)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • J.S. Bach: Lutheran Masses II.
    • Coro.
    • 14.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Autumn Gardens (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rautavaara: Gift of Dreams, Autumn Gardens.
    • Ondine.
    • 6.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major, Op 98b (American)

    Orchestra: Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Dvorak - Symphony No 6, American Suite.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 005.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Columba aspexit

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Doreen Muskett. Choir: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien.
    • A Vienna Souvenir: Ensemble Wien.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style, for solo viola, harpsichord and strings: no.2 The rose garden by moonlight

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata K113 in A major

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • Sound Circus.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • American Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Aug 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3