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Radio 3,30 May 2020,28 mins

Jess Gillam with... Elsa Bradley

This Classical Life

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Jess Gillam and percussionist Elsa Bradley chat about the music they love. Featuring the drama of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, Eugen Cicero injecting some caffeine into CPE Bach's Solfeggio, Arnold Bax’s majestic symphonic poem Tintagel. Plus Elsa goes wild in a field, or maybe just her kitchen, to the Warsaw Village Band, and we have a miniature moment of calm from Isobel Waller-Bridge. Playlist: Mozart - Requiem in D minor K.626; Kyrie + Dies irae (English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner) Steve Reich – Tehillim: I. Psalm 19:2-5 (Alarm Will Sound) Eugen Cicero - Solfeggio in C minor by C.P.E. Bach (Wq 117 No. 2, H220) La Boheme; Act 1 ‘Si Mi chiamano Mimi’ (Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia) Isobel Waller-Bridge - September Warsaw Village Band - Musicians Are a Playin Louis Armstrong - We have all the time in the world Bax – Tintagel (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Osmo Vanska)

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