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Classical, blues and jazz for the weekend

Jools is joined by the actress Rachael Stirling.

Jools shares his lifelong passion for classical music and the beautiful connections with jazz and blues. With fascinating guests each week, who bring their own favourite music.

Today, Jools's choices include music by Nikolai Kapustin, Francesco Geminiani and Tiny Grimes, with performances by Nicola Benedetti, The Nash Ensemble and Slim Harpo. His guest is the actress Rachael Stirling who discusses her new memoir about her mother, Diana Rigg, and introduces some of the music she loved best, including Faure, Wolf-Ferrari, Vaughan Williams and Louis Armstrong.

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59 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Sep 202612:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Pastoral, Op 40 No 6 (Eight Concert Etudes)

    Performer: Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin.
    • OCTAVIA RECORDS.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Slim Harpo

    I'm a King Bee

    • EXCELLO.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Orchestra: Czech Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michaela Rózsa Růžičková.
    • Etymology Classics.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso in D minor, H143, 'La Folia' (Theme and Variations 1-8)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Ensemble: Benedetti Baroque Orchestra.
    • Baroque.
    • Decca.
    • 1-2.

  • Tiny Grimes

    Annie Laurie

    • Atlantic.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    The Jewels of the Madonna (Act 3, Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    In Paradisum (Requiem, Op 48)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • John Barry

    We Have All the Time in the World

    Singer: Louis Armstrong. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • United Artists Records.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • ONYX.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Sep 202612:00
    BBC Radio 3