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Celebrating classical greats

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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Thu 4 Sep 2025 09:30
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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Claudio Abbado: Verdi Overtures.
    • RCA.
    • 3.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G minor Op.94

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • Alisa Weilerstein - Dvorak.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flautino Concerto in A minor RV.445

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

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Marnie "Prelude"

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Herrmann - The Film Scores.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain (i. En el Generalife)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Hyperion CDA68148.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op 40 (Version for Piano Quintet): III. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Resonance.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Henry Purcell

    Suite in G major Z.770

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 6 in D minor, Op 104 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G "Gypsy" (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio 1790.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 5.
    • CPO.
    • 203.

  • Benjamin Britten

    An American Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rattle conducts Britten.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.

  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    Il Segreto di Susanna: Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 7.

  • Edward Elgar

    Kindly do not smoke [Smoking Cantata]

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Falstaff/Songs etc..
    • CHANDOS.
    • 23.

  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas Dance

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol. 3: Shelley / 蜜芽传媒 NOW / Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti trot [Tea for two] (No, no, Nanette)

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse macabre Op.40

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Le Boeuf sur le toit.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Galina Grigorjeva

    Ikos (On Leaving)

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Sketches Sz.97

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin (The) (Complete Ballet) / Hungarian Pictures / Dance.
    • Naxos.
    • 18.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Where'er You Walk.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1402.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings, Op 35

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Performer: Peter Masseurs. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 4.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Uppsala Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.

  • Percy Grainger

    Eastern Intermezzo

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 11.

  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Sep 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3