This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with Fiachra Garvey

This Classical Life

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

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.

This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with... Fiachra Garvey

Jess Gillam with... Fiachra Garvey

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Jess Gillam is joined by pianist Fiachra Garvey to swap and share the music they love.

Jess Gillam is joined by pianist Fiachra Garvey to swap Bernstein and Brahms, crafted nostalgia by Nils Frahm and Holst's joyful Jupiter.

Jess and pianist Fiachra Garvey swap the music they love, including Bernstein that makes them both want to dance, Holst's joyful Jupiter from The Planets and Fiachra embraces his Irish roots with Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar.

Here's what we played this episode...

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo from West Side Story 
Johannes Brahms - Piano Quintet in F minor (Scherzo)  
Nils Frahm - Ambre from Wintermusik
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar  
Gustav Holst - The Planets - suite Op.32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity  
Fryderyk Chopin - Polonaise op 53 "Heroic"  
Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work 
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 7 (last movement)

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