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The best classical morning music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music for your morning, 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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Last on

Tue 29 Sep 202609:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 4.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Variations chantantes sur un air ancien

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Recorder Concerto No 7 in D minor after Corelli

    Composer: Francesco Geminiani. Performer: Maurice Steger. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Mr. Corelli In London.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 17-20.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance - rondo brillant

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • With Love from Vienna.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Nicolas Bernier

    Cantata: Le Caffé: 5. Air gai: "Café, du jus de la bouteille"

    • The Perfection of Music: Masterpieces of the French Baroque.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 86.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D. 940 (1st mvt: Allegro molto moderato)

    Performer: Radu Lupu. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Decca 478 8772.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Ce jour de l'an

    Ensemble: La Reverdie.
    • Venite alla danza!.
    • Arcana.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (4th mvt)

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

  • Steve Reich

    Mallet Quartet (Fast)

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • 105.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Enrique Granados

    El pelele (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ben Oakland

    Java Jive

    • 20 Classics.
    • Charly Records.
    • 5.

  • Simone Iannarelli

    Italian Coffee - No. 5, L'ultimo Caffe insieme

    Performer: Andrea Vettoretti.
    • INFINITY STUDIO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ei! Wie schmeckt der Coffee susse & Macdchen, die von harten Sinnen (Coffee Cantata BWV.211)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L’Oiseau Lyre.

  • Joseph Haydn

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

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 12.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Philip Glass

    Etude No. 2

    Performer: Camille Thomas. Music Arranger: Oscar Jockel.
    • Philip Glass for cello.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 17.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud'

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Josef Suk

    Prague, Op. 26

    • Suk: Prague & A Summer's Tale.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Elgar: Violin sonata etc: Kennedy/Pettinger.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Matthew Coleridge

    And there was light

    Performer: Maxim Calver. Orchestra: Southern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • CONVIVIUM RECORDS.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Hélène (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • French Bonbons: BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 8 S.118 [1615 no.13]

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • Warner.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Sep 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3