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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 7 Oct 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major, Op.11`5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eckart Runge. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • William Grant Still

    Singing River (Wood Notes)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Al Ayre Español.
    • Handel's Memories - A selection from Grand Concertos op. 6.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 11 - 15.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia (Mazurka)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.

  • Anonymous

    In illo tempore: vidit Jesus

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta. Director: Laurie Stras.
    • Lucky Music.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.

  • Steve Reich

    Mallet Quartet (Fast)

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • 105.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op.34 No.14

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff - Symphony No.3 Vocalise The Isle of the Dead.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 Voices: Gloria

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.
    • Byrd & Tallis: ...In Chains of Gold....
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frederick Delius

    By the River (Florida Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Chandos.

  • Yiruma

    River Flows In You

    Performer: Yiruma.
    • UNIVERSAL.

  • Jerome Kern

    Ol' Man River (Show Boat)

    Singer: Paul Robeson.
    • EMI.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Dargason (St Paul's Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Gustav Holst.
    • Documents.
    • 11.

  • Rita Strohl

    Septet in C minor (3rd mvmt, Romance)

    Performer: Shuichi Okada. Performer: Alexandre Pascal. Performer: Léa Hennino. Performer: Claudine Legras. Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: Lorraine Campet. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Rita Strohl: Volume 2, Musique de chambre.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 107.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Mavis in Las Vegas

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.

  • Franz Liszt

    6 Grandes etudes de Paganini S.141 (La Campanella)

    Performer: André Watts.
    • Andre Watts Plays Liszt Album 1.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Sinfonia Drammatica

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS: BIS-2210.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es petrus

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The World of Kings, Vol. 2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 40 (K.550) in G minor, 4th movement; Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Ensemble Appassionato. Conductor: Mathieu Herzog.
    • NAIVE.

  • Ester Mägi

    Bukoolika

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arvo Volmer.
    • Magi: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 5.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Fantasia in C major: 1) Presto di molto

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Suite) Op. 71a: VIII. Waltz of the Flowers

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu Conducts The Nutcracker Suite.
    • Philharmonia Records Ltd.
    • 108.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Oct 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3