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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 [email protected].

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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Tue 23 Sep 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The World of Vaughan Williams.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in F major Op.24 'Spring' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • SIMAX.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas - Overture Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Air and variations, 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite in E major, HWV 430)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Into the Ferment (7th mvt 'Wha' first shall rise to gang awa'

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.
    • MacMillan: Into the Ferment, The Berserking & Britannia.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.

  • Jing-Ping Zhang

    Harvest Celebration

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 601.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Phaeton, Op. 39

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • John Adams

    Batter my heart (Doctor Atomic)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    America (West Side Story)

    Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Jaap van Zweden. Ensemble: The Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet.
    • Fineline Classics.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Fugue in C major

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances, etc.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 013.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major RV 513 for 2 violins (1st mvt)

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Concerti per Due Violini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 19.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Deuxième Valse, Op.77

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.
    • 18.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.

  • Henry Litolff

    Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major Op.56 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: In Taberna - In taberna quando sumus

    Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Orff: Carmina burana.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter - overture Op.51

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Bk 1)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • DECCA.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Jumble Dance (Dance Card)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 603.

  • Herbert Howells

    Take him, earth, for cherishing

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Howells: Requiem / Take him, earth, for cherishing.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Bugler's Holiday

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Orchestra: Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concertos & Piano Trio No. 2.
    • Linn Records.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op 37

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 & Sea Pictures, Op. 37.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Murmur of the Wheat (In the Midst of Nature, No. 5)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol 1: In Nature.
    • FHR.
    • 7.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F Minor (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Clarinet Connection.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

    Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 23 Sep 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3