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Refresh your morning with classical 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 24 Oct 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert (No 1, La Caprice de Nanette)

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture, Petite Suite, & Other Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Valse)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warners.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Piano Quartet in F minor, Op 28 (3rd mvmt, Tempo di Mazurka)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Havanaise

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • TELDEC.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth Suite no.1 (Fairy Pipers)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Capriccio.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in A major Op.3`12

    Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina.
    • Europa Music.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Cafe 1930 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Piazzolla for Two - Tangos for Flute & Guitar: Patrick Gallois, Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem/Polovtsian Dances: Philharmonia Orchestra: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 8.

  • Gérard Jouannest

    Mathilde

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.
    • Pianosong.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No 4 in E flat major, Op 48 (2nd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.

  • Charlotte Sohy

    Trio, Op. 24: II. Andante

    Performer: Nikola Nikolov. Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Charlotte Sohy: Piano Music.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 17.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: James MacMillan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: Polish Festival Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major (Tafelmusik, 2nd production)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra Müllejans.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jaromír Weinberger

    Schwanda the Bagpiper (Polka)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens.
    • Weinberger: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 105.

  • Jaromír Weinberger

    Svanda the bagpiper [Svanda dudak] - Fuga

    Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz.
    • Weinberger: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 106.

  • Benjamin Britten

    You spotted snakes with double tongue (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Choir: Trinity Boys Choir.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Liza Lehmann

    There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Lyricist: Rose Fyleman. Singer: Sarah Walker.
    • Blah Blah Blah & Other Trifles: Cabaret Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance No.9 in B major, Op.72 No.1

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa Pange lingua: Agnus Dei

    Lyricist: Josquin des Prez. Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Josquin des Prez.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A-flat Major, BWV.886 (Well-Tempered Klavier, Bk 2)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra, Op 86

    Performer: Dale Clevenger. Performer: Richard Oldberg. Performer: Thomas Howell. Performer: Norman Schweikert. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca Eloquence.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Agnus Dei (Requiem, Op.48)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 12.

  • John Adams

    China Gates

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
    • John Adams: Road Movies.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G major, HWV.384

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 and 8.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Oct 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3