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A feast of great 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

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Fri 3 Oct 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 19.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K191 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn Records.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Santiago a cappella; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 6.

  • William Walton

    Sinfonia Concertante (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • RCA.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Force of Destiny (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 201 'Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde' (opening chorus)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • JS Bach: Cantates profanes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Mots D' Amour.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 29.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Violin Concerto in A minor, TWV55:a1

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Claude Debussy

    5 Poèmes de Baudelaire: No 4 'Recueillement'

    Performer: David Kadouch. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • ALPHA.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quintet in F Minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Till Fellner. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA : 248.
    • ALPHA.
    • 7.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, Suite No 1 in D Minor: Courante

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 2: The Dance.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 2.

  • Mons Leidvin Takle

    Festmusikk

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Lob des hohen Verstandes (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Art of Thomas Quasthoff.
    • DG.
    • 137.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Boreades - Overture

    Ensemble: Le Concert d’Astrée. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Une nouvelle fête Baroque.
    • Erato.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

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

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • James MacMillan

    In splendoribus sanctorum

    Performer: Mark O'Keeffe. Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.
    • LINN.

  • Robert Russell Bennett

    Violin Concerto (4th mvt)

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • CHANDOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele: No, no I'll take no less

    Singer: Pretty Yende. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón No 2

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • The Vienna Recital.
    • DG.
    • 16.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No 1

    Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    Singer: Johannette Zomer. Choir: La Chapelle Royale. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/BBC Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Waltz (2 Pieces for piano 6 hands)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Performer: Aleksandar Madžar.
    • Erato : 019029595469.
    • Erato.
    • 11.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhäuser: Overture

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Oct 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3