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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 an orchestral masterpiece.

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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les cloches de Genève (Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • NAIVE.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31: IV. Elegy

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Lyricist: William Blake. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aldeburgh Festival Strings. Director: Markus Däunert.
    • Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Marianna Martines

    Overture [Symphony] in C major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 5.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Prelude On The Welsh Hymn Tune 'Rhosymedre'

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel.
    • Chandos.
    • 22.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano: I. Allegro calmato

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Michael Collins Plays British Clarinet Sonatas, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • My First Decade.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Sydney Guillaume

    Dominus Vobiscum

    Choir: Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Conductor: Joshua Habermann.
    • The Road Home.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 9.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G Major, Wq. 180

    Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori. Conductor: Marcin Świątkiewicz.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Berlin Symphonies I.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace (A Mexican serenade) - rag for piano

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • NONESUCH.

  • William Alwyn

    Harp Concerto 'Lyra Angelica' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Osian Ellis. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: William Alwyn.
    • William Alwyn - Lyra Angelica; Autumn Legend.
    • Lyrita.
    • 8.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 10.

  • Peter Warlock

    The Cricketers of Hambledon

    Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Norman Bailey.
    • Decca.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll No 2

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • Butterworth: Orchestral Works & Works for Voice & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

  • Ned Washington

    Pinocchio "When You Wish Upon a Star"

    Singer: Cliff Edwards. Choir: Disney Studio Chorus. Orchestra: Dinsey Studio Orchestra.
    • Pinocchio.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 1.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo, Op.11

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • Carnaval: Wynton Marsalis.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • STERLING.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Music Arranger: Antoine Forqueray.
    • Kreisler: Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2 (Arr. Fougeray for Violin and Gui.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony no.3 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Copland: Symphony No. 3 – Walker: Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions".
    • 101.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni.
    • Il Tenore.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.14 in E flat K449

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Chandos.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Panorama (The Sleeping Beauty)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

  • Robert Schumann

    Violin sonata No 3 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Schumann: Violin Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E flat major Op.24

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2 for 2 Pianos, Op. 17: III. Romance. Andantino

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Rachmaninoff for Two.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Jun 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3