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Your perfect classical playlist

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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Wed 19 Nov 202509:30
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Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Balthasar‐Neumann‐Chor. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • The Secret Fauré 3: Sacred Vocal Works.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Chaconne and Variations in G major HWV.435

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Paule Maurice

    The Bumblebee (Pictures of Provence)

    Performer: Julia Nolan. Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.

  • Anon.

    Flautino Concerto in C Major, RV 443 (Arr. for Marimba & Orchestra): III. Allegro

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Fumito Nunoya. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Johannes Schlaefli.
    • Concertos on Marimba.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • DECCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Angel's farewell (The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Choir: Hallé Choir. Choir: Hallé Youth Choir. Orchestra: Hallé. Director: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Dream of Gerontius.
    • Halle.
    • 14.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Franz Doppler. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Deep Dive - Liszt.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..
    • 137.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Allemande in G minor (Pièces de clavecin,1687)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture, Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Tring.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 6 in E minor (unfinished)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Imogen Holst

    Mass in A minor (Kyrie)

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Sir Colin Davis Anthology.
    • Lso Live.
    • 226.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K297b (3rd mvt, Andantino con variazioni)

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart : Sinfonia concertante.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Waft her, Angels (Jephtha)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Classical Opera Company. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Signum.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem Op.48 for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra: In Paradisum

    Choir: La Chapelle Royale. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Angelo Badalamenti

    Hook Rug Dance

    Composer: David Lynch. Director: Angelo Badalamenti.
    • Twin Peaks: Season Two Music And More.
    • Rhino.
    • 17.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • William Boyce

    Birthday Ode for George III

    Ensemble: The Hanover Band. Director: Graham Lea-Cox.
    • ASV.

  • Clara Schumann

    Lorelei

    Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: James Atkinson.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    Symphony no.4 in G minor Op.14 'Sinfonia piccola' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Atterberg: Symphonies 1 & 4.
    • CPO.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59, 'Für Elise'

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
    • 30.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

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

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Domine, quis habitabit

    Choir: Chapelle du Roi. Conductor: Alistair Dixon.
    • Signum.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E minor, Op.23

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphony no.2, Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in D minor - Chaconne ou Passacaille

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles Op.23)

    Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane, Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Nov 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3