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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.- Mozart: Overtures, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Tafelmusik, Bruno Weil.
- Sony Classical.
- 12.
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Amy Beach
Masked Ball, Op.22
Orchestra: Moravsk谩 filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.- CENTAUR.
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Richard Strauss
Serenade in E flat major, Op.7
Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.- Strauss: Orchestral Works: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
- Arte Nova Classics.
- 14.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.- DECCA.
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Max Bruch
Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola and orchestra Op.88 (2nd mvt)
Performer: G茅rard Causs茅. Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- Bruch/Werke fur Klarinette und Viola.
- Erato.
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Erik Satie
Jack in the Box
Orchestrator: Darius Milhaud. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- Warner Classics.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Paris Quartet no.1 in G major, TWV.43:G1
Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.- SONY.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Autumn (6 脡tudes de concert- book 1 Op.35)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Stephen Hough's French Album.
- hyperion.
- 013.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
March (English Folk Song Suite)
Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
- Naxos.
- 12.
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Owain Park
Warm, Hazy Rain
Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.- Fantasia: Works for Trumpet & Organ.
- Chandos.
- 114.
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Franz Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major, D. 950: I. Kyrie
Choir: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Conductor: Robert Shaw. Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.- Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167 & Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major, D. 950.
- Telarc.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Armide, Act I: Overture
Composer: Louis-Joseph Francoeur. Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.- Lully: Armide 1778.
- Alpha Classics.
- 1.
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Eduard Strauss
Bahn frei! - Polka schnell Op. 45
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: James Loughran.- Viennese Night - Waltzes and Polkas by the Strauss Family.
- Warner Classics.
- 6.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.19 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.- Beethoven - The Complete Piano Concertos.
- Nonesuch.
- 6.
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Elisabeth Kuyper
Ballad, Op.11
Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Anna Rakitina.- SONY.
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Leopold Mozart
Symphony in C major, 'Toy' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: The Orchestra of St. John鈥檚, Smith Square. Conductor: John Lubbock.- Sanctuary.
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Claude Debussy
Cake-walk (Children's Corner)
Performer: Jean鈥怑fflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
- 16.
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Victor Herbert
March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland)
Orchestra: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.- Marco Polo.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- AVI MUSIC.
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William Grant Still
Ennanga: 2nd mvt
Ensemble: Videmus.- William Grant Still.
- New World Records.
- 16.
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John Harle
RANT!
Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.- decca.
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Alexander Borodin
Mazurka Rustique (Petite Suite)
Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.- Borodin: Requiem, Polovtsian Dances and Suite from Prince Igor.
- Signum Classics.
- 10.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Albioni/Pachelbel/Bach: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 13.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 7 in C major
Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.- BIS.
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George Frideric Handel
Sarabande (Keyboard suite in D minor HWV.437)
Music Arranger: Olivier Four茅s. Performer: Daniel Hope. Ensemble: Daniel Hope Ensemble.- DG.
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Louise Farrenc
Quintet no.2 in E major Op.31 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.- Farrenc: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2.
- CPO.
- 201.
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William Byrd
Vigilate
Choir: VOCES8.- Signum.
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Hector Berlioz
B茅atrice et B茅n茅dict Op.27 (Overture)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Berlioz Odyssey: The Complete Colin Davis Recordings.
- Lso Live.
- 401.
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Georges Bizet
L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 1 (Carillon)
Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jes煤s L贸pez Cobos.- Bizet: Carmen Suite, Symphony No. 1: Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
- Telarc.
- 10.
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