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Refresh your morning with 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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Tue 30 Dec 202509:30
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Music Played

  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin (Le Triomphe de la Republique)

    Music Arranger: Charles Gerhardt. Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • James Galway - Celebrating 70 - A collection of Personal Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B Minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • Kissin Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall, Vol 2.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.29 in A major K.201 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Sir Charles Mackerras Conducts Mozart.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • William Cornysh

    A Robyn, gentyl Robyn

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Metronome.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Allegro appassionato Op.43

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Havanaise

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.

  • Hans Rott

    Symphony No. 1 in E major: III. Frisch und lebhaft

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1/Suite for Orchestra.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Six Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 3 in F minor)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (Suite Populaire Espagnole)

    Performer: Meredith Blecha-Wells. Performer: Kim Sun-Min. Music Arranger: Pau Casals.
    • NAVONA.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in E flat major Op.9'7

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 25.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Zig Zag.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Wagner: Overtures and Preludes: Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Barenboim.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.

  • Gabriela Montero

    'Continuum'

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.

  • Eugène Gigout

    Toccata in B Minor

    Performer: Nicolas Kynaston.
    • Essential Organ.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • King Henry VIII of England

    Pastime with good company / Hélas madame

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Percy Grainger

    My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone

    Performer: Hamish Milne. Performer: Stephen Orton. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • Grainger: The Grainger Edition Vol. 13 - Works for Chamber Ensemble 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 201.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Who Killed Cock Robin?

    Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Silence & Music.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • Georges Bizet

    Le Bal (Jeux d'enfants, Op.22)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Bizet;Faure;Ravel.
    • Philips.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV.1012 (Allemande)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • César Franck

    Symphony in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Franz Liszt

    Wiegenlied, S.198

    Performer: Lucille Chung.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Dances for Orchestra (Dance I)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Rückert-Lieder

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • Mahler Song Cycles.
    • Pentatone.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Michael Tippett

    Steal away (5 Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • a la Gloire de Dieu: The Sixteen.
    • Coro.
    • 6.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • EMI.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.

  • Robert Johnson

    Full Fathom Five from 'The Tempest'

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • BIS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Performer: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Dec 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3