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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

  • Benjamin Britten

    Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony Op.4)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – Modern & 20th Century Classics.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 1.

  • Robert Ramsey

    How are the mighty fall'n

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • August Klughardt

    Wind Quintet, Op.79 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bergen blåsekvintett.
    • Bergen Wind Quintet: Ibert, Reicha, Arnold, Saeverud.
    • Simax.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bizet, Faure, Ibert, Ravel: City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Light in Darkness

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in C major Wq.182`3

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • C.P.E. Bach: "Beyond the Limits" Complete Symphonies for Strings and Continuo.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13-15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op.59 no. 3 "Razumovsky" (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Aris Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 9 & 14.
    • Genuin.
    • 2.

  • Vivian Ellis

    Coronation Scot

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Introduzione al Gloria "Longe mala, umbrae, terrores", RV 640

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Singer: Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian. Conductor: Pablo Valetti. Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • Vivaldi: Masques.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    EC Playlist clip 210126

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in D major Op.46 no.6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 74 in C minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 17.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Alice Zawadzki

    Es Verdad

    Performer: Misha Mullov-Abbado. Performer: Alice Zawadzki. Performer: Shirley Smart. Singer: Alice Zawadzki.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hornpipe; Air No 3; How blest are the shepherds; Chaconne (King Arthur)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • SONY.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking a Balance.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Sarah Quartel

    Lux Aeterna (Sanctum)

    Choir: The Oxford Choir. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • George Harrison

    Here comes the sun

    Music Arranger: Christopher Austin. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Mercury.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Spring Op.33 no.6

    Music Arranger: Elena Urioste. Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • To the Spring.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 401.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

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

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si puo fare

    Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón. Performer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea.
    • Ambronay.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace - A Mexican Serenade

    Performer: Phillip Dyson.
    • Scott Joplin – The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 33.

  • Léo Delibes

    Sylvia, ou La Nymphe de Diane Suite [complete]

    • Delibes: Suites from the Ballets.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-7.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • NAIVE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Handel: Arie e Duetti D'Amore; Europa Galante.
    • Naive.
    • 3.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Concerto for bandoneon and orchestra, 'Aconcagua' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • ALPHA.

  • Robert Schumann

    Six Studies in Canon Form Op. 56: 1,2 & 3

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Music Arranger: Claude Debussy.
    • Live from Buenos Aires - Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-3.

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral march of a marionette

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

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