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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 [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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 Sep 202509:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor)

    Performer: Marie‐Claire Alain.
    • Great Toccatas: Marie-Claire Alain.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite no.1 for jazz band

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Contredanse in G flat major

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in C minor for mandolin, recorder and strings BWV.1060R

    Music Arranger: Avi Avital. Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • DG.

  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 99 in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Sonata-Fantaisie in G sharp minor

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.

  • Caroline Shaw

    ...and the Swallow

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Edward Elgar

    Aubade (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Elgar: Nursery Suite etc.: Groves.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Deborah Pritchard

    Light Enkindled

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.
    • Fantasia: Works for Trumpet & Organ.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.1 in F minor

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lucio Silla, K.135 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau Lyre.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde Overture

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Études Nos 37, 38, 74

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 1, 7, 17.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Il Trovatore - Tu vedrai che amore in terra

    Singer: Rachel Willis-Sorensen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti.

  • John Rutter

    A Gaelic Blessing

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • Bill Evans

    Peace Piece

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Life.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    La paix (Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Dona nobis pacem (Mass in B minor)

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet quintet in F sharp minor, Op.10 - 1st mvt, Allegro energico

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira No 5)

    Singer: Juliane Banse. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Erato.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Many are the wonders.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Koong Shee

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 107.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartet in C minor, D 703 'Quartettsatz'. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat mater, RV 621 (1st mvt)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Augusta Holmès

    Night and Love (interlude from the symphonic ode Ludus pro Patria)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas - Act III: The Witches' Dance

    Performer: Steven Devine. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Danses espagnoles 'La vida breve'

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Music Arranger: Gustave Samazeuilh.
    • Piano Fantasy/Music for two pianos: Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 1-2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Sep 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3