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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 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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Fri 7 Nov 2025 09:30
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Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 1 (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Warner.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in E major D.157 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1鈥�9.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 15.

  • Giovanni Battista Bononcini

    Ombra mai fu (Xerse)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Musiche Nove. Director: Claudio Osele.
    • Simone Kermes - Colori D'Amore - Le Musiche Nove; Claudio Osele.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O Sacrum Convivium

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Grigoras Dinicu

    Hora staccato

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Victor Koptchinsky.
    • Rapsodia: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
    • Naive.
    • 18.

  • William Walton

    Symphony No 1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.

  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-down (Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid: San Francisco SO, Tilson Thom.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 006.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La Boulang猫re a des 茅cus: "Ah ! Qu'elle est fi猫re"

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Choir: Ch艙ur de L鈥橭rchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Les Divas d'Offenbach.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

  • Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in G major Op.3`5

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.

  • Dana Suesse

    Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Ferde Grof茅. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Jazz Nocturne.
    • Naxos.
    • 009.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Quartet No. 4 In E Minor Op.44 For Strings

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 2.

  • Henri Mulet

    Tu es petra (Esquisses byzantines)

    Performer: Peter Crompton.
    • Toccatas and Roses, Peter Crompton.
    • Priory.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus K.618

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 1.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Serenade after Plato's Symposium (1st mvt)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Bernstein: Serenade - Barber: Violin Concerto - Foss: Three American Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • William Walton

    Belshazzar's Feast (conclusion)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Choir: 麻豆社 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • APEX.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    贰蝉辫补帽补

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.

  • Marin Marais

    Les Voix humaines (Suite - book 2 no. 3 in D major)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • ERATO.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D Minor, RV 565, Op 3 No 11

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Nabil Benabdeljalil

    Nocturne No. 4

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • SOMM.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Coppelia: Act I No.2 'Waltz of Swannhilde'

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Henry Purcell

    Welcome to all the pleasures - Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.339

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major Op.18

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Le贸 Weiner

    Serenade for small orchestra, Op 3 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Solti - Bart贸k.
    • DECCA.
    • 21.

  • Pamela Harrison

    Sonatina for Violin and Piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Pamela Harrison: Chamber Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Suleika II, D 717

    Performer: Daniel Heide. Singer: Katharina Konradi.
    • LIEBENDE.
    • AVi.
    • 20.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 1 in C Minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Nov 2025 09:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3