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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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Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for three harpsichords, BWV.1063

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Performer: Davitt Moroney. Performer: Colin Tilney. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Blue Rose

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Chiaki Murakawa.
    • MClassics.

  • Graham Fitkin

    Carousel

    Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata Sancti Polycarpi

    Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Sarka (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Smetana: M谩 Vlast.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Luis Bacalov. Performer: H茅ctor Ulises Passarella. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bacalov: Misa Tango: Domingo, Martinez, Bacalov, Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu Op. Posth.142, D. 935: No. 4 in F Minor

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, D. 935: No. 2 in A-Flat Major.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Mel Bonis

    Le R锚ve de Cl茅op芒tre

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie: Agnus Dei

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Josquin Masses.
    • Gimell.
    • 14-16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41 "Jupiter".
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing - Suite Op.11 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5-8.

  • Erik Satie

    Parade (Finale)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre des Concerts Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.
    • L'Orchestre de Satie.
    • Erato.
    • 008.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    4 Airs pour le carrousel de Monseigneur, LWV 72

    Singer: Brass of Aquitaine and London. Conductor: Richard Harvey.
    • Brass at La Sauve-Majeure.
    • ASV.
    • 3.

  • Anton Karas

    Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man)

    Performer: Anton Karas.
    • Orson Welles and the Music.
    • EDITIONS MILAN MUSIC.
    • 1.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Lost chord, arr. for brass ensemble [orig. voice and piano]

    Performer: Besses o鈥� th鈥� Barn Band. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Yorkshire Imperial Band. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Conductor: Harry Mortimer.
    • British Bandsman Centenary Concert.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt: Presto)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Pace (arr. for brass ensemble)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • 麻豆社 MUSIC MAGAZINE.

  • Georges Bizet

    La patrie

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66 for piano

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Evening

    Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Hilary Campbell.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Scott Dunn

    R3 AMERICAN ROADTRIP - LA - Murder on the Orient Express

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Violin and Viola da gamba, 'La maggiore' RV546

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Performer: Vladimir Waltham. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • AVIE.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (No 2, A Leaf Blown Away)

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Signum.

Broadcast

  • Friday 09:30
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