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Your perfect classical playlist

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr T枚chter (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: London Oratory Junior Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S.Bach: St. Matthew Passion: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41: Sir Colin Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Robert Schumann

    Widmung, Op. 25/1: Du meine Seele, du mein Herz

    Performer: J枚rg Demus. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Schubert/Schumann Songs.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Rose Adagio (The Sleeping Beauty)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty; The Nutcracker - Highlights.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (Vivace)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gunnar Idenstam

    Northern Bells

    Performer: Erik Rydvall. Performer: Gunnar Idenstam.
    • Northern Dances.
    • Toccata Next.
    • 119.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four English Dances, Set 2, Op 33

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 5.

  • William Lawes

    Can beauty's spring: Diminutions on Love, I obey

    Music Arranger: Robin Pharo. Director: Robin Pharo. Ensemble: Ensemble Pr猫s de votre Oreille.
    • William Lawes: Lighten mine eies.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 8.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in A minor for recorder, 2 violins and continuo

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Georges Bizet

    Au fond du temple saint (The Pearl Fishers)

    Singer: Rolando Villaz贸n. Singer: Ildar Abdrazakov. Orchestra: Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Duets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No. 5 in D major: 1st movement

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Boyce: Eight Symphonies op. 2.
    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.
    • 13.

  • Irwin Kostal, Original Soundtrack Recording & Tommy Steele

    Flash, Bang, Wallop! (Half a Sixpence)

    • Half a Sixpence (Original Soundtrack Recording).
    • RCA Victor.
    • 10.

  • Philip Glass

    A Gentleman's Honour (The Photographer, Act I)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Singer: Dora Ohrenstein. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • Glass: The Photographer.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 9, 'Nimrod')

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.

  • Andreas Hall茅n

    Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 3: III. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Daniel Migdal. Performer: Albin Uusijarvi. Performer: Amalie Stalheim. Performer: Peter Friis Johansson.
    • Wennerberg-Reuter - Stenhammar - Hall茅n.
    • BIS.
    • 106.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • William Byrd

    Ne irascaris, Domine

    Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • After Silence.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 4.

  • Angela Morley

    A Canadian in Mayfair

    Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vocalion.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.

  • 痴搁茂

    T么n Fechan Meifod

    Ensemble: 痴搁茂.
    • T欧 Ein Tadau.
    • Recordiau Erwydd.
    • 10.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Shakespeare Songs

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum.
    • 6.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Op.26

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Mon 8 Sep 2025 09:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3