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A classical soundtrack 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 [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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Mon 10 Nov 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Overtures: Cleveland Orchestra/Maazel.
    • I.M.P..
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Salve regina for 5 voices

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat for wind, Op. 7

    Ensemble: Aldeburgh Winds. Conductor: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Metamorphosen.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Prelude, Op 12 No 7 (Ten Pieces for piano)

    Performer: Boris Berman.
    • Prokofiev: Piano Music Vol.6: Bori Berman.
    • Chandos.

  • Anna Clyne

    Masquerade

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: Mythologies.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia etc: Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Jean-Benoît Dunckel

    Wake

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Ensemble: Capucelli.
    • Dunckel: Wake.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Allegretto from Sonata In G Major Wq.133

    Performer: Elizaveta Ivanova. Performer: Sanja Bizjak.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Voyevoda, Op 78

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, The Voyevoda: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orches.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K.361 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Amadeus: Original Soundtrack Recording.
    • Metronome.
    • 4.

  • Ester Mägi

    Piano Concerto: i. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Ada Kuuseoks. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arvo Volmer.
    • Magi: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 2.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation in the style of Bach

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Gabriela Montero: Piano Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 209.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air on a G string (Suite no.3 in D major BWV.1068)

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • Air On A 'G' String - The Very Best Of Jacques Loussier.
    • Music Club.
    • 1.

  • Dudley Moore

    And The Same To You

    Performer: Dudley Moore Trio.
    • British Comedy Classics.
    • EMI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ysaÿe.
    • Ravel/Debussy: String Quartets: Quatuor Ysaye.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.538 for 2 horns and orchestra

    Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Jocelyn Lightfoot. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Schubert: Octet: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Ornamental Air for basset clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • Mozart/Copland/Kats-Chernin: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 6-8.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Sonata No 3 in D minor)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major

    Orchestra: The Women’s Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Koch.

  • Henry Purcell

    Pavan in G minor Z.752

    Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • William Walton

    Orb and Sceptre - coronation march

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Crown Imperial.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Nov 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3