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The ideal mix of classical music

Georgia Mann plays the in best 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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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi Fan Tutte)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Singer: Malena Ernman. Singer: Konstantin Wolff. Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op 130: Cavatina

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • Beethoven: The Late String Quartets.
    • Pentatone.
    • 305.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos: Andsnes, Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Frank Ticheli

    Earth Song for chorus

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • After Silence.
    • Voces8 Records.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Orpheus' Comet

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.
    • Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Cello Concerto in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Schumann: Cello Concerto.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35, 'Haffner' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphonies; SCO; Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
    • 1.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Entr'acte

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Isabelle Moretti.
    • 脡l茅gance: French music for flute and harp.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 8.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Laurent Lef猫vre. Performer: Olivier Doise.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    To the shady woods now wend we

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Berceuse

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde: 3. Von Der Jugend

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • Sony.

  • Steve Reich

    The Desert Music (Part Three - excerpt)

    Performer: Steve Reich. Choir: Brooklyn Philharmonic Chorus. Orchestra: Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Steve Reich / The Desert Music.
    • Nonesuch Digital.
    • 5.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    God's Grandeur

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus & Other Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 17.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A Flat Major, Op 42

    Performer: Sasha Stychkina.
    • ALPHA.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: H枚枚r Barock. Director: Dan Laurin.
    • BIS.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Clairieres dans le ciel (Les lilas qui avaient fleuri)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • BIS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto Op. 77 (2nd mvt.)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Richard Strauss

    Six songs, Op 68 'Brentano Lieder'

    Singer: Louise Alder. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Prelude (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Nisi Dominus (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez鈥怲oro.
    • NAIVE.

  • Mons Leidvin Takle

    Festmusikk

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Hyperion.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Samson et Dalila Op.47 (Bacchanale)

    Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du Duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

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  • Friday 09:30
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