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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 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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Tue 4 Nov 202509:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jacques Zoon. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Ottavio Dantone. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra Mozart, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Piano Trio no.1 in G minor Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tzigane Piano Trio.
    • Chaminade: Chamber Works.
    • ASV.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mazurka-Oberek in D major

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Ensemble: The Abbey Road Ensemble. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • EMI.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    "Hm Hm Hm" from The Magic Flute, K.620

    Conductor: Marie Jacquot. Singer: Amitai Pati. Singer: Huw Montague Rendall. Singer: Hannah Edmunds. Singer: Ellen Pearson. Singer: Emma Carrington. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Dornröschen Tone-Pictures (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-tale music: Bamberger Symphoniker/Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • BIS.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Je crois bien et je le promets, from Le Diva

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Choir: Choeur National des Pays de la Loire. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Op.17

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin Suite etc: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Doreen Carwithen. Work incl. Overture (ODTAA), Suffolk suite and others.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: David Walter. Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos.
    • NoMadMusic.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • William Ward-Higgs

    Sussex By The Sea

    Performer: The Band of the Grenadier Guards. Director: Rodney Bashford.
    • Visit Britain.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Herbert Sumsion

    They that go down to the sea in ships

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Performer: David Leigh. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • Leigh, David: British Church Composer Series Vol.9.
    • PRIORY.
    • 9.

  • Ronald Binge

    Sailing By

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Concerto in C major RV.450

    Performer: Xenia Löffler. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Georg Kallweit.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style, for solo viola, harpsichord and strings: no.2 The rose garden by moonlight

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Beethoven/Mendelssohn: Nash Ensemble.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 6.

  • Paul Dukas

    La Péri

    Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Fournet.
    • Denon.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Amadis (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Capriccio Stravagante. Director: Skip Sempé.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 8: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Concertino da camera

    Ensemble: Tall Poppies Ensemble.
    • TALL POPPIES.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Prince of Sleep

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Stephen Westrop. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Choral Songs: London Symphony Chorus/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 23.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 - 3rd mvt

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky/Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Nov 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3