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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 27 Feb 202609:30
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Music Played

  • John Ireland

    Concertino pastorale (Toccata)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Ireland: A Downland Suite etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Famous Overtures: Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasia in a F minor, D 940 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • William Byrd

    Miserere mihi Domine

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4.
    • Pentatone.
    • 103.

  • Trad.

    Nana: "Duérmente, Niño, Duerme"

    Music Arranger: Manuel de Falla. Singer: Montserrat Figueras. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • Ninna Nanna Ca. 1500-2002.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab - Scherzo (Romeo & Juliet)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette.
    • Linn Records.
    • 8.

  • Franz Ries

    La Capricciosa

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: José Gallardo.
    • Homage.
    • WARNER.
    • 1.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S 231

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.

  • Carl Orff

    Dance (Carmina Burana)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Mel Bonis

    Le songe de Cléopâtre

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Joseph Bastian.
    • Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 101.

  • Johann Christian Schickhardt

    Concerto in C major for four recorders, Op.19`1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Sirena Recorder Quartet. Performer: Mogens Rasmussen. Performer: Fredrik Bock. Performer: Leif Meyer.
    • Baroque - Sirena Recorder Quartet/Dan Laurin.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungari.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 5.

  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Gaucho

    Performer: Angiolina Sensale.
    • Drama Musica.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Marcel Lanquetuit

    Toccata in D Major

    Performer: Alexander Ffinch.
    • Expectations.
    • Divine Art.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel & Gretel (Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime)

    Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Singer: Ruth Ziesak. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
    • Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel.
    • TELDEC.
    • 17.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hush, no more (The Fairy Queen)

    Singer: Ashley Riches. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Turkish March (Concert Paraphrase) [based on Mozart's Rondo alla Turka]

    Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Piano Transcriptions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Lyricist: Anon.. Singer: Ruby Hughes.
    • Amidst the Shades.
    • BIS.
    • 103.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for Harp and Orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Handel - Tailleferre.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 4.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.
    • Schumann.
    • WARNER.
    • 202.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • APARTE.

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony No 1 in C major

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • CBS.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante défunte

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Emilie Mayer

    String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 14: II. Scherzo. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Erato Quartett Basel.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mayer & Sirmen: String Quartets.
    • CPO.
    • 202.

  • James McMillan

    Christus vincit

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Performer: David De Winter. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op.35 - Chen, He: Butterfly Lovers, Violin Concert.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 110.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Feb 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3