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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

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Force of Destiny (Overture)

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Nicola Matteis, Jr

    Sonata in C minor: 3rd movt - Adagio-Grave-Presto

    Ensemble: Duo Dorado.
    • Spice of Italy.
    • Chandos.
    • 116.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.3 in C major Op.52 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN10809.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622 (2nd movement, Adagio)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 102.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Choeur des elfes

    Choir: BBC Singers. Singer: Olivia Robinson. Performer: Libby Burgess. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Bugler's Holiday

    Performer: Kate Moore. Performer: David McCallum. Performer: John Blackshaw. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Anderson: Orchestral Music 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    March, from Notturno No 1 in C major

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Ensemble: L’Archibudelli.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G Minor, Z. 730

    Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Les Violons du Roy: Encore!.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 1.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Escolaso

    Ensemble: Duettango.
    • BIG ROUND RECORDS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance Op 64 no.1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Orama.
    • Erato.
    • 10.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Septet in D minor Op.74 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D.485 (4th mvmt, Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 \"Unfinished\".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Cello Sonata in C minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lionel Handy. Performer: Jennifer Hughes.
    • British Cello Works.
    • Lyrita.
    • 01.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO Live : LSO0795.
    • LSO Live.
    • 6.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    2 Fairy Tales, Op. 48: No. 2, Tale of the Elves

    Performer: Alexander Malofeev.
    • Forgotten Melodies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Paavo Järvi: The Complete Erato Recordings.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio no.1 in B major Op.8; Scherzo

    Performer: Josef Suk. Performer: János Starker. Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • Brahms: Piano Trios Nos.1 & 2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti (L'olimpiade, RV 725)

    Ensemble: Jupiter Ensemble. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 29.

  • Helena Munktell

    Dalsvit (Suite dalecarlienne) Op.22 for orchestra [complete]

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • STERLING.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Menuet 1 and 2 (Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351)

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.

  • Anders Hillborg

    Sound Atlas: 5th movt - Hymn

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Brad Lubman.
    • ALPHA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Wind serenade in D minor Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak: Blaserserenaden.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Tambourins 1 and 2 (Les Indes galantes)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 31.

  • Émile Waldteufel

    The Skaters Waltz

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • With love from Vienna: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

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