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Jess Gillam with... Kunal Lahiry

Jess Gillam and pianist Kunal Lahiry have a listening party of tracks they love, including Tori Amos and Orlando Weeks, epic choral music by Brahms and Yo-Yo Ma playing Dvorak.

Jess Gillam and pianist Kunal Lahiry have a listening party of tracks they love, including a seminal teenage memory involving Tori Amos, a Nirvana cover and an apple martini. Plus tracks by Orlando Weeks, epic choral music by Brahms and Yo-Yo Ma playing one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, Dvorak's Song to the Moon

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Sat 14 May 202212:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.

  • Leos Janáček

    In the Mists: I. Andante

    Performer: Kunal Lahiry.

  • Benjamin Britten

    O Waly, Waly

    Performer: Peter Pears. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.

  • Matt Maltese

    As The World Caves In

    Performer: Matt Maltese.
    • Café Bleu Recordings.

  • Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen

    Shine You No More

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs, M. 43: III. Une barque sur l'océan

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Ravel: Miroirs, Le Tombeau de Couperin.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Orlando Weeks

    Big Skies, Silly Faces

    • Hop Up.
    • PIAS.

  • Tori Amos

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

    • Little Earthquakes.
    • EastWest.

  • Nirvana

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

    • Nevermind.
    • DGC.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Jesse Diener-Bennett. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Golijov: Azul.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.

  • Hania Rani

    Glass

    Performer: Hania Rani.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 - opening

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Conductor: Robert Shaw.
    • Telarc.

  • Sam Cooke

    Wonderful World

    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 May 202212:30
    BBC Radio 3

Why are more young people listening to classical music?

Why are more young people listening to classical music?

20yo classical musician and presenter Jess Gillam is here to improve your playlist game.

Podcast

  • This Classical Life

    Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too.