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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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Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Leonard Bernstein: A Portrait.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, Hob XV: 27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • Haydn: Piano Trio No. 43, Op. 86, Hob. XV: 27 No. 1: III. Finale.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Zogernd, leise) D.920

    Singer: Bernarda Fink. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo in B flat Major

    Orchestra: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • Pentatone.
    • 121.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestra: 蘑菇短视频 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Canci贸n al 谩rbol del Olvido

    Performer: Laura Deleo. Singer: Patricia Deleo.
    • Canciones Argentinas.
    • ACQUA RECORDS.
    • 3.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)

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

  • Charles Gounod

    Faust (Act 2: Waltz)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • Lovely Classique Danse.
    • Decca Records.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Come, Let Us Worship (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: Ringmasters.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for solo violin No 3 in C major, BWV 1005 (1st mvt)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • From Afar.
    • DG.
    • 3.

  • Samuel Coleridge鈥怲aylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Coleridge-Taylor, Dvo艡谩k, Stewart.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for clarinet and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Walter Braunfels

    Der junge Knabe singt - The young boy sings

    Performer: Andrew Hamilton. Performer: Michael Pandya.

  • Alexandre Guilmant

    Sonata No. 1 in D minor for organ, Op. 42 Finale

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Naive.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Michael Gees. Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien.
    • Schubert: Winterreise.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 5.

  • Franz Liszt

    Valse oubli茅e No 1 in F sharp

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Liszt: Harmonies du Soir.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    There Is Sweet Music (4 Choral Songs Op.53)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • McCreesh: Silence & Music.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral works: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Poldowski

    L'heure exquise

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

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Symphony no.5/The Seasons.
    • WARNER.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Concerto in C, K 314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • BIS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von N眉rnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Wagner: Orchestral music: Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Ireland

    Concertino Pastorale

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major 'Military' (2 Polonaises Op.40)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro te devote

    Singer: Lucy Sun. Singer: Annabel Green. Singer: Susannah Hill. Singer: Edward Cunningham. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen (conclusion)

    Music Arranger: Rudolf Leopold. Ensemble: Camerata Tchaikovsky.
    • ORCHID.

  • John Adams

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • III. Toccare.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Regino S谩inz de la Maza

    Zapateado

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Erato.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 3.

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