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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 a masterpiece.

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Thu 10 Sep 202609:30
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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • LONDON.
    • 8.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Symphony no.19 G.521 (Op.43`6) in D major [Overture]

    Director: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos: Bylsma, Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Clémence de Grandval

    Romance (Suite for flute and piano)

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • Compositrices à l'aube du XXe siècle.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata BWV.525

    Music Arranger: Anon.. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • J.S.Bach: Organ Trio Sonatas: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes: A Portrait.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Dowland

    Now, O Now I Needs Must Part

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Performer: David Miller.
    • Dowland: First Booke of Songesor Ayres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: Concertos for Oboe and Strings: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 4-6.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, H XV 25, 'Gypsy' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2003, Martha Argerich and friends, Chamber Music.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    Graduale. Si ambulem in medio umbrae (Requiem for 4 voices)

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • RICERCAR.

  • John Williams

    E.T. - music for the film, 'Flying'

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: John Williams.
    • John Williams: The Berlin Concert.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet no.1 In D Major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Heath Quartet.
    • String Quartets No. 1 & No. 3.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Ronald Binge

    Cornet carillon

    Performer: Hannaford Street Silver Band. Conductor: James Curnow.
    • CBC.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Serenade espagnole

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Kyung-wha Chung. Performer: Phillip Moll.
    • Brahms/Kreisler/Elgar: Con Amore: Kyung Wha Chung.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Trad.

    Ae Fond Kiss

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory Macdonald.
    • Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • George Gershwin

    My man's gone now (Porgy and Bess)

    Singer: Cynthia Clarey. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan tutte

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Michele Pertusi. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte: London Voices/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Solti.
    • Decca.
    • 20.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude in C minor, Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary)

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Dedication.
    • Erato.
    • 116.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Saxophone Concerto 'Cyber-bird', Op. 59 (2nd movement - Bird in Grief)

    Performer: Nobuya Sugawa. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Yoshimatsu: Saxophone Concerto etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: II. Andante con moto

    Conductor: Enrico Onofri. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester.
    • Beethoven & The Italians: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 - Cherubini, Rossini,.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op 34 No 14

    Performer: Truls Mørk. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky: Cello & Piano Works: Mork, Thibaudet.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Piano Concerto

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Poulenc: Concertos for Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Stanley Myers

    Cavatina (The Deer Hunter)

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Sony.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 67 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    When the night wind howls (Ruddigore)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Swedish Radio Choir. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Anon.

    Saltarello

    Performer: David Munrow. Performer: Alan Lumsden. Performer: David Corkhill. Performer: Christopher Hogwood. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite no.1

    Music Arranger: Ernest Guiraud. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

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  • Thu 10 Sep 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3