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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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Music Played

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Hans‐Kristian Kjos Sørensen.
    • Air, A Baroque Journey: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat, K.271 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Chandos.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os Justi

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Godere in gioventù (Enjoy your youth)

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort.
    • Fieri Records.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • LONDON.
    • 8.

  • Frederic Mompou

    Muñeira (Suite compostelana)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 606.

  • William Grant Still

    Singing River (Wood Notes)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929: II. Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • Trio Gaspard Live in Berlin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 11.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle No.7 in D minor, Op.90

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • NAXOS.

  • Patrick Hawes

    The Wildflower Meadow (Highgrove Suite)

    Performer: Claire Jones. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Patrick Hawes.
    • Patrick Hawes, Highgrove Suite: Claire Jones, Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Classic FM.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in D minor, HWV 381

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • John Foulds

    Sicilian Aubade

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: BBC Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 5.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets)

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Holst - The Planets / Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

  • Gerald Finzi

    It Was a Lover and His Lass

    Music Arranger: John Dankworth. Singer: Cleo Laine. Ensemble: The Johnny Dankworth Seven.
    • Basement Bop, Vol. 2.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 10.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job: A Masque For Dancing - Scene VII: Elihu's Dance Of Youth And Beauty - Pavane Of The Sons Of The Morning

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Job - A Masque For Dancing / Partita For Double String Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 07.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie Espagnole (5th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 5.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Creatures of Prometheus

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Composer: Bernard Haitink.
    • DECCA.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major, Kk.96

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.

  • Gustav Mahler

    I went this morning over the field (Songs of a Wayfarer)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Debussy: Jeux, Preludes - Matthews: Postlude.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 1.

  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir

    Maríuljóð

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.
    • Kom vinur.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 201.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti

    Double Bass Concerto in A major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gary Karr. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Uroš Lajovic.
    • Double Bass Concertos By Koussetizky, Dragonetti & Paganini.
    • MUSICA MUNDI.
    • 5.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49: III. Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Mendelssohn Piano Trios.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 2 in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.

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