Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Great classical music for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask ѿý Sounds to play Essential Classics”

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 18 Mar 2025 09:30

Music Played

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Cancan (Orpheus in the Underworld)

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Summer Night Concert 2016.
    • Sony.
    • 11.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • BIS.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    March (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Anna Shelest.
    • Donna Voce Vol. 2: Women of Legend.
    • Music and Arts Programs of America.
    • 03.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    La suave melodia

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Scherzo Capriccioso etc..
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Britta Byström

    Walk (Ink-Wash on Paper)

    Performer: Malin Broman. Performer: Eriikka Nylund. Performer: Marie Macleod. Performer: Rick Stotijn. Performer: Niklas Andersson. Performer: Henrik Blixt. Performer: Chris Parkes.
    • Byström: Ink-Wash on Paper.
    • OUR Recordings.
    • 104.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major K.138 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra Müllejans.
    • Mozart: Divertimenti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Singer: Ryan French. Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 11.
  • Tielman Susato

    Ronde no.11 [Danserye, 1551]

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • David Munrow: Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries.
    • Testament.
    • 11.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nocturne (Pan Voyevoda - Suite Op.59)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Russian Adagios.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Clara Schumann

    Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage

    Singer: Stephan Loges. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit Op.15`1

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Elgar: Symphony No.1 etc: LPO/Boult.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Franz Krommer

    Octet-partita in E flat major Op.79 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Dvořák: Serenade in D minor, Krommer: Octet-Partitas Op. 67 & 79.
    • CRD Records.
    • 8.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie no.1 in D major

    Orchestrator: Claude Debussy. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No.1 (Orchestral Version by Claude Debussy).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 101.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    Piano Trio no.2 in G minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bernt Lysell. Performer: Ola Karlsson. Performer: Lucia Negro.
    • MUSICA SVECIAE.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Promenade (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Henry Wood. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • LYRITA.
  • Anonymous (Codex Calixtinus)

    Dum pater familias

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Howard Shore

    Concerning Hobbits (The Fellowship of the Ring)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Temple.
    • The Complete Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Film Music Collection.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Where'er You Walk.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1402.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.
  • Philippa Schuyler

    The Poet's Love

    Performer: Sarah Masterson.
    • Travelogue.
    • Centaur Records, Inc..
    • 7.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Henri Rabaud

    Eglogue

    Orchestra: Loire Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.
    • Rabaud: Marouf / Eglogue, Etc..
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Flute Sonata in F major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ana Oltean. Performer: Simon Bucher.
    • ARS PRODUKTION.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd Girl's dance (The Mountain king)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • Orchestral Works: Malmo Symphony Orchestra / DePriest.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • Arnold Bax

    Walsinghame

    Singer: Martyn Hill. Singer: Lynore McWhirter. Choir: Brighton Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bax - Orchestral Works Volume 8.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.
  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen - The Six String Quartets.
    • CALA.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.4 in F minor

    Orchestrator: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • John Field

    Nocturne no.1 in E flat major H.24

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ERATO.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Heu me domine

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor D.915

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata D.845, Wandererfantasie D.760: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square, 1944 (3 Dance Episodes from 'On the Town')

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 603.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Mar 2025 09:30

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.