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A classical soundtrack 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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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37B: September (The Hunt)

    Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 & The Seasons.
    • Chandos.
    • 123.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • HYPERION.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Scherzo in A major TWV 42:A4 (Lunedi)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Symposium.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat Major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Scenes from Hiawatha - overture Op.30`3

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 6)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Ad猫s. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40 (Version for Piano Quintet): II. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • RESONANCE: Schumann, Farrenc, Durosoir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Preise dein Gl眉cke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Canata BWV.215)

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: Celebratory Cantatas.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Variations on a theme of Mozart

    Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Music@MenloLive.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.

  • Agathe Backer-Gr酶ndahl

    3 Morceaux, No.2 "Au Bal"

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 10.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Petite Messe Solennelle: Kyrie

    Performer: Wyneke Jordans. Performer: Loe van Doeselaar. Performer: Jos van Immerseel. Singer: Mireille Capelle. Singer: Catherine Patriasz. Singer: Joseph Cornwell. Singer: Jelle Draijer. Choir: Netherlands Chamber Choir. Director: Jos van Immerseel.
    • ACCENT.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse Lente [2 Pieces for piano]

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Performer: Thomas Trotter.
    • Symphony Hall Sorcery.
    • Regent.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Lovely tear of lovely eye (Salisbury Motets)

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • Chilcott: Requiem: Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Laurent Lef猫vre. Performer: Olivier Doise.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Scherzo in B flat major

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mussorgsky: Symphonic Works ((Remastered)).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major, S124

    Performer: Alexander Ullman. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Scottish Waltz (Scottish Dance No. 3, Op. 59)

    Music Arranger: Ray Farr. Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • The Malcolm Arnold Edition: Orchestral, brass and piano music.
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'oc茅an

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Overture in G minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Performer: Sophia McKenna. Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Mon 1 Sep 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3