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A feast of great 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 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

Last on

Fri 23 Jan 202609:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for Clarinet & Viola in E Minor, Op.88 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dimitri Ashkenazy. Performer: Anton Kholodenko. Orchestra: Baltic Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mats Liljefors.
    • Weber & Bruch: Works for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra.
    • Paladino Music.
    • 503.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quintet, Op 4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Beethoven: String Quintets Op.4 & 29: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HYPERION.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses

    Orchestra: Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benoît Fromanger.
    • Chant de Linos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.3 in F (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Serenade No. 2.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter - overture Op.51

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Chandos.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In The Bottoms (Barcarolle)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • MSR Classics.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Orchestra: III. Rondo

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas no.1

    Music Arranger: Tasmin Little. Music Arranger: John Lenehan. Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Tchaikovskiana: Tasmin Little/John Lenehan.
    • EMI Classical.

  • Pablo Valetti & Café Zimmermann

    Flute Concerto in F major, RV 434 (feat. Karel Valter)

  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Solti - Bartók.
    • DECCA.
    • 15.

  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus

    Choir: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine (Symphony No.1 in D major - original version)

    Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • RCA.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Lively (Horseplay)

    Ensemble: Continuum. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • Wallen: The Girl in my Alphabet.
    • AVIE.
    • 9.

  • Carl Loewe

    3 Balladen, Op. 1: No. 3, Erlkönig

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Lyricist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Singer: Florian Boesch.
    • Carl Loewe: Songs & Ballads.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Léo Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Heinrich Biber

    Violin Sonata No.3 in F major, C.140

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Argerich Plays Chopin.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 15.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    Afro-American Suite: III. Adagio ma appassionato

    Ensemble: Mallarmé Chamber Players.
    • Songs for the Soul.
    • Albany Records.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Mazurka in B flat

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Ove.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Jan 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3