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Radio 3,13 Jun 2020,27 mins

Jess Gillam with... Sam Becker 2 (The Return of Becker)

This Classical Life

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Jess Gillam welcomes back bassist and flatmate Sam Becker to share some more of the music they love whist in lockdown. This time they choose Britten’s vivid Sea interludes, Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds and Sam gets all weepy over Mary Poppins feeding the birds! Playlist: Benjamin Britten - 4 sea interludes – Dawn (Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi) The Platters - Smoke gets in your eyes Pablo Casals - El Cant Dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) (Pablo Casals (cello), Prades Festival Orchestra) Everything Everything - Fever Dream Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet Rimsky Korsakov - Trombone Concerto (Christian Lindberg, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Osmo Vanska) Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins Ravel - Pavane pour une infant (Bertrand Chamayou - paino)

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