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The best classical morning music

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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Thu 2 Jul 202609:30
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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D Minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Tchaikovsky, Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • DG.
    • 6.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony Op.4 (Boisterous Bouree)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: The Young Person's Guide etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 115: IV. Allegro molto

    Performer: Anthony Marwood.
    • Fauré: Piano Quintets 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.108 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": I. Allegro

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.

  • John Adams

    John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Habanera

    • Gnarly Buttons/John's Book Of Alleged Dances.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 6.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso No. 7 in D Major, Op.6

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Performer: Helena Zemanová. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • Zig-Zag Territoires.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major D.929 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: The Florestan Trio.
    • Schubert Piano Trio in E flat major D929.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: XI. Estuans interius

    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: XIV. In taberna quando sumus

    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: XV. Amor volat undique

    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Performer: Matthew Barley.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi - Overtures and Preludes: Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Eric Coates

    The Dam Busters March

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bizet: Carmen: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Dave Brubeck

    Unsquare Dance

    Ensemble: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • Columbia.

  • Trad.

    Wallom Green (The English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: John Playford. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 101.

  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)

    Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 102.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 9 "Im Sommer": III. Die Schwüle

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Nobuo Uematsu

    Merregnon: Heart of Ice: Heart of the Storm

    • Merregnon: Heart of Ice.
    • Universal Music Operations Limited.
    • 21.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and gigue in D major for 3 violins and continuo

    Performer: Leila Schayegh. Ensemble: La Centifolia.
    • Ciaconna!.
    • Glossa.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488

    • Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 459 & 488.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si può fare?

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunità. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Music.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no.1 in G major BWV 1007: Prelude

    • Bach: 6 Suites For Cello Solo.
    • Evil Penguin Classic.
    • 1.

  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

    Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 1: IV. Allegro assai

    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1 - Igor Stravinsky: Symphony, Op. 1.
    • Praga Digitals.
    • 4.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Da pacem Domine arr for string quartet

    Ensemble: Callino Quartet.
    • A Place Between.
    • Louth Contemporary Music Society.
    • 6.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Butterworth · Holst.
    • Onyx Classics.

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Jul 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3