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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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Wed 1 Jul 202609:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Jubilee - Sparkling Classical Gems.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux D.780 (no.1 in C major)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Videte miraculum

    Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Josef Suk

    Elegie, Op.23

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.

  • Henriette Renié

    Danse des Lutins

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • Nightscapes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Ballade in D minor Op.4

    Performer: Curtis Stewart. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Repper.
    • Avie.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Quartet No 1 in F major for wind instruments

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: III. Veris leta facies

    Conductor: Jader Bignamini. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Audivi.
    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • Pentatone.
    • 3.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D minor, K.397

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas/Fantasies: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonatensatz

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus

    Choir: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • 3.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Andante cantabile, arr. composer for str orch (with vc solo)

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Pentatone.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - Overture

    Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629: The Sisteen, Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Björk

    Frosti

    Performer: Björk.
    • Vespertine.
    • Elektra.
    • 6.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Marianna Martines

    Harpsichord Sonata in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: I. Allegro

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C minor Op.13 'Pathétique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Paul Wranitzky

    Symphony in D minor, 'La Tempete'

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no. 1 in D major Op.47

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra Mai Fu

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • VIRGIN.

  • William Walton

    Scapino - overture

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made In Britain: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, John Wilson.
    • AVie.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni à 12, C183

    Music Arranger: Eric Crees. Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Cathedral Brass: London Symphony Brass/Crees.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale-Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S.Bach: Organ Works - Ton Koopman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Jul 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3