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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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Music Played

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    The Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary)

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Performer: Simon Preston.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 64: II. Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No. 30 in D major H.16.19 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怑fflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Dov'io credea le mie speranze vere

    Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Singer: Shannon Mercer.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 10.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust: LSO, Davis.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Champagne (carte blanche) - waltz

    Performer: Miguel Baselga.
    • BIS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Concert Suite (arr. L. Stokowski)

    Conductor: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • An Evening with Leopold Stokowski.
    • Glossa.
    • 11-16.

  • Nicole Murphy

    Spinning Top

    Performer: Amir Farid. Performer: Lachlan Bramble. Performer: Ewen Bramble. Ensemble: Benaud Trio.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 11.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to come (March)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Movies.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    6 Songs, Op.4 - No. 4, Do Not Sing, My Beauty

    Performer: Meredith Blecha-Wells. Performer: Kim Sun-Min.
    • Navona Records.

  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Caprice in E major for piano and orchestra, Op 22

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Director: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sterndale Bennett; Bache - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes/Scherzos/Sonata in B flat minor: Lortie.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Jonathan Dove

    The Three Kings

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 4 in D major K.218: 1st movement

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act 1: "Finch' han dal vino" (Don Giovanni)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Concertgebouworkest.
    • Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 26.

  • Hans Christian Lumbye

    Champagne Galop, Op. 14

    Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols.
    • Dacapo.
    • 101.

  • Cole Porter

    I Get A Kick Out Of You (Anything Goes)

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Ensemble: Unnamed band. Conductor: Buddy Bregman.
    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook.
    • Verve Records.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Scherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata)

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Geraldine Mucha

    Macbeth Suite (Banquet)

    Orchestra: Hradec Kr谩lov茅 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser.
    • Macbeth And Other Orchestral Works.
    • ARCO DIVA.
    • 4.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands together

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Amy Beach

    Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Pamela Frame. Performer: Barry Snyder.
    • Koch.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite Suite, L. 65: I. En bateau

    Music Arranger: Emmanuel Fran莽ois. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 (complete)

    Ensemble: Gli Angeli Gen猫ve. Conductor: Stephan MacLeod. Singer: Aleksandra Lewandowska. Singer: Alex Potter. Singer: Valerio Contaldo.
    • Bach: The Complete Chorale Cantatas / Cantatas 34-36.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 10-15.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    M茅ditation, Op 72 No 5 arr Glazunov

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto: Joshua Bell.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 驶F眉r Elise始

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Beethoven: Fur Elise, Bagatelles Opp. 33, 119 & 126.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 25.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D major

    Performer: Florence Malgoire. Ensemble: Les Dominos.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet movement in A minor

    Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Ensemble: Amatis Piano Trio.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Kate Royal.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

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