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A feast of great 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 a masterpiece.

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Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34: IV. Scena e canto gitano. Allegretto

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Ove.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 4.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34 (5th mvt, Fandango asturiano)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Ove.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 5.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op. 34: III. Minuetto Capriccio - Presto

    Performer: Mark van de Wiel. Ensemble: Soloists Of The Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 105.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229: Komm, Jesu, komm

    Lyricist: Paul Thymich. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus.
    • Bach: Motets.
    • BIS.
    • 301.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.8 in G major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
    • DG.
    • 8.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Grand Concerto Gastronomique, Op. 76: V. Peach Melba

    Singer: Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie. Orchestra: Liepāja Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Gibbons.
    • Arnold: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 5.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Sonata in A minor Op.7 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest HWV.258

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Bandoneón

    Ensemble: duettango.
    • Big Round Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.4 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles for guitar: no.1; Allegro

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams and Fancies. Eglish Music for Solo Guitar.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 1.

  • Peter Warlock

    Corpus Christi

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Singer: Sophie Bevan. Ensemble: Coull Quartet.
    • On This Shining Night.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 201.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.104 in D major 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Death and the Maiden

    Ensemble: Philharmonix.
    • The Vienna Berlin Music Club, Vol. 5 - Sandbox.
    • Supreme Music Group.
    • 13.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Concerto in One Movement: III. Andantino - Allegretto

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah.
    • Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Lionel Bart

    Food, Glorious Food (From Oliver!)

    Lyricist: Lionel Bart. Choir: The Boys.
    • Celebrate Broadway Vol. 7: Kids.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 4.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Menu gastronomique, Tournedos Rossini

    Ensemble: Police Band of Baden Württemberg. Conductor: Toni Scholl.
    • Hafabra Music.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    La bonne cuisine (Four Recipes): No. 1, Plum Pudding

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Lyricist: Leonard Bernstein. Lyricist: Émile Dumont. Singer: Jennie Tourel.
    • The Original Jacket Collection - Carnegie Hall Presents: Bernstein Conducts Bern.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.

  • Luigi Denza

    Finiculi, Finiculá

    Lyricist: Giuseppe Turco. Music Arranger: Giancarlo Chiaramello. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Anton Guadagno.
    • The Essential PAVAROTTI.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 iii) Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40: IV. Allegro

    Performer: Han‐na Chang. Ensemble: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Cello Sonata.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Umberto Giordano

    Marina - Oh! qual selvaggia ebbrezza

    Singer: Eleonora Buratto. Orchestra: Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali. Conductor: Vincenzo Milletarì.
    • Giordano: Marina.
    • Universal Music Operations Limited.
    • 3.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Richard Strauss

    Macbeth, Op. 23

    Orchestra: Orchester der Oper Zürich. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 25: III. Minuetto

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei (Choral Version of Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a)

    Lyricist: Trad.. Choir: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Franz Liszt

    Saint francois d'assise la predication aux oiseaux

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard. Lyricist: Franz Liszt.
    • The Liszt Project - Bartók; Berg; Messiaen; Ravel; Scriabin; Stroppa; Wagner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Benjamin Godard

    3 fragments poétiques, Op. 13: No. 3, Victor Hugo

    Lyricist: Benjamin Godard. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud.
    • So Poétique !.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 21.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon (Overture)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Kabalevsky: Works for Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.

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