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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music for your morning, 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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms - The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 25.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82 - III. Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • ERATO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (Cantata No 111)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 111, 123, 124 & 125: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • Divox.
    • 4.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire - overture, Op.21

    Conductor: Enrique Bátiz. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Le Carnaval Romain; Le Corsaire.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 6.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Lights Out

    Performer: Susie Allan. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Celebrating English Song.
    • SOMM.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Leggenda

    Performer: Francesco de Angelis. Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, L. 75: IV. Passepied

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Isabelle Moretti.
    • Élégance: French music for flute and harp.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Airport Scenes (Departures)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Rita Strohl

    Quatuor pour violon, alto, violoncelle et piano: IV. Thème et variations

    Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: Alexandre Pascal. Performer: Léa Hennino. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Rita Strohl: Volume 2, Musique de chambre.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 204.

  • Felice Anerio

    Ave Regina caelorum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Music from the Sistine Chapel.
    • Coro.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    4 Last Songs: no.2; Tired

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge / Five Mystical Songs (English Song, Vol. 3).
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)

    Performer: Toby Carr. Singer: Helen Charlston.
    • Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament).
    • 2022 Delphian Records Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op 15 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 6.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet Op 43 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Stefan Schweigert. Performer: Radek Baborák.
    • Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos, Wind Quintet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Myself I shall adore (Semele)

    Singer: Louise Alder. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Semele.
    • SDG.
    • 10.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Divertimento: III. Scherzo. Moderato - Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Fairy Tales.
    • Naxos.
    • 110.

  • Max Bruch

    String Quintet in A minor (3rd mvmt, Adagio non troppo)

    Ensemble: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players.
    • Bruch: String Quintets & Octet.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op 40: Sarabande and Gavotte

    Performer: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • BIS.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, D 803: V. Menuetto. Allegretto

    Ensemble: Scharoun Ensemble.
    • Schubert: Octet D 803.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Dances for Orchestra (Dance I)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles, Op 23)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op.77 (No.1 La Caprice de Nanette)

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • MARCO POLO.

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