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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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Fri 17 Oct 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • HYPERION.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 1-3.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor Op.9 no.1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The cloud-capp'd towers (3 Shakespeare songs)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    "Trumpet" Overture Op.101 in C major

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Barber, Korngold, Walton: Violin Concertos.
    • ONYX.
    • 1.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Bluebird

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Klemens.
    • Evolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum mobile, Op 257

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Johann & Josef Strauss: Polkas.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Florence Price

    First Sonata for Organ; 3. Finale (Allegro)

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • Florence Price: Organ Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony In F For 2 Horns, 2 Oboes And Strings (cpte)

    Orchestra: Concerto Cologne. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Myslivecek: Symphonies.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.

  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So [Porgy & Bess]

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 9 in C major, D 944, 'Great' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 22 S.241 [1615 no.20]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Director: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • John Alden Carpenter

    Skyscrapers: Scene IV, The "Merry-Go-Round"

    Orchestra: Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Conductor: Gil Rose.
    • John Alden Carpenter: Complete Ballets.
    • BMOP/sound.
    • 25.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z.15

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • The Glory of Purcell.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 15.

  • John Williams

    The Towering Inferno; Main Title

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • The Towering Inferno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major for viola and strings; 4th mvt

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Ensemble: Academy for Early Music, Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Herbert Howells

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor; 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Herbert Howells: Concertos & Dances.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Eric Coates

    By the sleepy lagoon

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Missa solemnis in C Major, K. 337

    Performer: Jens Wollenschläger. Singer: Marietta Fischesser. Singer: Barbara Werner. Singer: Benoît Haller. Singer: Manfred Bittner. Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Orchestra: The Palatinate Chamber Orchestra, Mannheim. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Mozart Masses, Vol. 1.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 16.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B flat major, Op 23 No 2

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Simon Trpceski Plays Rachmaninov.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Jessica Curry

    Disappearing

    Choir: Metro Voices. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: James Morgan.
    • Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Original Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Richard Rodgers

    The Lonely Goatherd (The Sound of Music)

    Performer: Angela Cartwright. Performer: Nicholas Hammond. Performer: Kym Karath. Performer: Duane Chase. Performer: Charmian Carr. Performer: Heather Menzies. Performer: Debbie Turner. Music Arranger: Irwin Kostal. Singer: Julie Andrews. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Irwin Kostal.
    • RCA BMG.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia No.5

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Purcell: Complete Fantasies for Viols.
    • Simax.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major Op.18

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Schumann: Carnaval/Papillons/Kinderszenen/Arabeske: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.
    • 47.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E major, Op 54 No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Sacconi Quartet.
    • Sacconi Records.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Oct 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3