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Jess Gillam with... Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Jess Gillam with... Sheku Kanneh-Mason

FromThis Classical Life


Jess Gillam with... Sheku Kanneh-Mason

FromThis Classical Life

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Aug 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Ahead of his performance at the 2023 Final Night of the Proms, revisit cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's chat with Jess Gillam as they share the music they love. First aired August 2021

Mozart takes us to heavenly plains with his Great Mass, Leroy Anderson plays a typewriter, Max Richter sends us to sleep and we'll hear some heart-wrenching cello playing from Jacqueline du Pré in Dvorak's Silent Woods. Plus Jess and Sheku discuss the iconic voices of legends Bob Marley and Nina Simone.

Playlist:
Dvořák - Silent Woods for cello and orchestra, Op. 68 No. 5 (Jacqueline du Pré - cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim - conductor)
Sam Cooke – Falling in Love
Mozart - Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' – Kyrie (Barbara Bonney - soprano, Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado - conductor)
Margaret Bonds – Troubled Water (Samantha Ege - piano)
Leroy Anderson – The Typewriter (Eastman Rochester Pops Orchestra, Frederick Fennell)
Bob Marley & The Wailers – African Herbsman
Max Richter – Dream 1
Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free (Nina Simone - vocals/piano, Studio Orchestra, Sammy Lowe - conductor)
Released:
Aug 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too. Music, eclectic playlists and chat, with a new guest every week.