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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 essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.

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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Wed 5 Nov 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: The Young Person's Guide etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 - III. Tempo di Menuetto

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra.
    • National Symphony Orchestra.

  • Eugene Zádor

    Piano Quintet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anna Górecka. Orchestra: MÁV Szimfonikus zenekar. Conductor: Mariusz Smolij.
    • NAXOS.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Novelettes, Op.15: No.5 All'Ungherese

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite Op.40 (Prelude & Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.

  • Peter Breiner

    Beatles Concerto Grosso No.1 (In the style of Handel): V. Penny Lane Allegro

    Orchestra: Peter Breiner & His Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner.

  • Karl Goldmark

    Im Frühling Op.36

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Goldmark: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2.
    • CPO.
    • 101.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Orchestra: III. Rondo

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Ensemble: Arcanto Quartett.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K581 & String Quartet K421.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Valeria: C'est pour aimer

    Lyricist: Henri Meilhac. Lyricist: Ludovic Halévy. Singer: Véronique Gens. Choir: Chœur de L’Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Les Divas d'Offenbach.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd movement)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx Classics : ONYX 4165.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 3.

  • Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri

    Violin Concerto in G major, Op 1 No 2, 'Tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Louis Schwizgebel. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabien Gabel.
    • Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos 2 & 5.
    • APARTÉ.
    • 2.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op 44 (3rd mvmt, Minuetto)

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Christoph Traxler.
    • A Trip To France.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Lay All Your Love On Me / Loure Grave (From Les Fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41

    Composer: Benny Göran Bror Andersson. Composer: Björn K. Ulvaeus. Lyricist: Benny Göran Bror Andersson. Lyricist: Björn K. Ulvaeus. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 17.

  • Philip Glass

    Symphony No 4 mov. 1 'Heroes'

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.

  • Paul McCartney

    Blackbird

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Frederick Delius

    A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Myer Fredman.
    • LYRITA.

  • Baldassare Galuppi

    La gelosia: II. Aria. "Bei labbri, che Amore formò per suo nido"

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Gelosia! - Italian Cantatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 21.

  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: I. Allegro maestoso

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: III. Allegro molto

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro te devote

    Lyricist: St. Thomas Aquinas. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Cecilia McDowall: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Partita (Divertimento) in E major H.15.34 for kbd & str: 3rd mvt; Finale......

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G major, Op 32 No 5

    Performer: Ivana Gavrić.
    • Ivana Gavrić: In The Mists.
    • CHAMPS HILL.
    • 12.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt0

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.5: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Nov 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3