The best classical morning music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music for your morning, 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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Frederick Delius
La Calinda (Koanga)
Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Delius: Orchestral Works.
- LONDON.
- 8.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concerto a 5 in C major Op.7`11
Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.- Albinoni: Double Oboe/String Concertos Vol. 2.
- Chandos.
- 16-18.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet. Performer: Veronika Hagen.- Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
- harmonia mundi.
- 108.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat Major, K. 271: III. Rondeau. Presto
- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 8 & 9.
- Hyperion.
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Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston (No 6, Harlem's Summer Night)
Ensemble: McGill / McHale Trio.- Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet & Piano.
- Cedille.
- 12.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in C major Kk.251
Music Arranger: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad. Performer: S茅rgio Assad.- Nonesuch.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 "Eroica" Op. 55: I. Allegro con brio
Conductor: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations.- Beethoven: Sinfonia Eroica.
- Alia Vox.
- 1.
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Morten Lauridsen
Contre qui, rose (Les chansons des roses)
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Les Chansons Des Roses.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Maurice Ravel
Vocalise-茅tude en forme de habanera, M. 51 (Arr. for Flute and Harp by J. Hurel
- 脡l茅gance: French music for flute and harp.
- harmonia mundi.
- 7.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Danse des sylphes
Performer: Philip Martin.- Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
- Hyperion.
- 10.
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Gioachino Rossini
Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.- Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
- Decca.
- 10.
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Hugo Alfv茅n
Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'
Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.- Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
- SONY.
- 1.
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Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ARCHIV.
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Billy Strayhorn
Take the "A" Train
Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.- Battle of the Bands.
- BMG.
- 18.
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Florence Price
Hold Fast to Dreams
Lyricist: Langston Hughes.- We Have Tomorrow.
- Delos.
- 6.
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Arturo M谩rquez
Conga del fuego nuevo
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 12.
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Eric Coates
London Suite: III. Knightsbridge (March)
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- British Light Music Classics 2: New London Orchestra/Corp.
- Hyperion.
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Louise Farrenc
Sextet for piano & winds in C minor, Op.40 (1st mvt: Allegro)
Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A, Scene 4: Rheingold! Rheingold! reines Gold!
Lyricist: Richard Wagner. Conductor: Fabio Luisi. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra.- Wagner: Das Rheingold.
- Delos.
- 30.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major, D.935 no.2
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- Schubert: Impromptus.
- Philips.
- 6.
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The Tempest, Op. 18:
Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan. Orchestra: 91福利社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda, Overture and Polona.
- Chandos.
- 102.
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Henry Purcell
Abdelazer (Rondeau)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- John Eliot Gardiner - The Blossoming Conductor.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Sally Beamish
Gerropaedie
Performer: Sally Beamish. Performer: Stephanie Irvine.- Gerropaedie.
- Delphian Records.
- 1.
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Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re
Harp Concerto in E-Flat Major, Op. 74: I. Allegro moderato
Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.- Gli猫re, Mosolov: Harp Concertos.
- Sony Classical/Sony Music.
- 1.
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William Byrd
Tristitia et anxietas a 5 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1589): I. Tristitia et anxiet
Lyricist: Anonymous.- Byrd: Mass for Five Voices; Ave verum corpus; Lamentations & Other Works.
- Hyperion.
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Johann Strauss II
Roses From the South, Waltz
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- Neujahrskonzert 2026 / New Year's Concert 2026 / Concert du Nouvel An 2026.
- Sony Classical.
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