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The very best of 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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3 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 11 Nov 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for three harpsichords, BWV.1063

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Performer: Davitt Moroney. Performer: Colin Tilney. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse des dépêches (Les Maries de la tour Eiffel)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: James MacMillan.
    • UCJ.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace; mvt 1

    Conductor: David Temple. Orchestra: London Orchestra da Camera. Choir: Hertfordshire Chorus.
    • Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man (Ensemble Version).
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Concerto in C, K 314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • BIS.

  • Anon.

    Old Simon the King

    Performer: Pamela Thorby. Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble.
    • Linn.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite: Vi. Finale. Scherzo-nocturne-scherzo

    Conductor: Geoffrey Simon. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Borodin: Requiem, Polovtsian Dances and Suite from Prince Igor.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Edward Elgar

    Variation 15 from Dunkirk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Dunkirk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Sur le lac du Bourget

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • GAÏA.
    • Erato.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace; mvt 1

    Conductor: David Temple. Orchestra: London Orchestra da Camera. Choir: Hertfordshire Chorus.
    • Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man (Ensemble Version).
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Frank Renton.
    • Classic Brass.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 4.

  • Gustav Holst

    Ode to Death, Op 38

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Choral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 010.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bk.1)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Max Richter

    On The Nature Of Daylight

    Orchestra: Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • Exiles.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Jean Cras

    Quintette: I. Assez anime

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • French Music for Flute, Harp And String Trio.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 1.

  • John Williams

    Hymn To The Fallen (Saving Private Ryan)

    Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Saving Private Ryan.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • George Butterworth

    The lads in their hundreds (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Let us sleep now (War Requiem)

    Singer: Peter Pears. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. Choir: Highgate School Choir. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Iberia Book 2 for piano (Triana)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony no.7 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'oiseau Lyre.

  • Karen Tanaka

    Echoing Souls

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.

  • Jules Massenet

    Toccata

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel/Debussy/Massemet: Various works: Bavouzet/BBC SO/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano; 2nd mvt. Andante semplice

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe.
    • Chandos.

  • George Butterworth

    2 English Idylls

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat Mater in F Minor, RV 621: No. 1. "Stabat Mater dolorosa"

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Alessandro Tampieri.
    • Invocazioni Mariane.
    • Naive.
    • 16.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Opp.77 and 103.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov piano concertos 2 & 3 : Simon Trpceski, RLPO, Vasily Petrenko.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Nov 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3