This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with Lotte Betts-Dean

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... Lotte Betts-Dean

Jess Gillam with... Lotte Betts-Dean

BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with... Lotte Betts-Dean

Jess Gillam and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean share music they love.

Jess Gillam meets with mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean for a virtual lockdown listening party, with music including Rachmaninov, Cesária Évora, Cocteau Twins and Mahler.

Jess Gillam meets with London based Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean for virtual lockdown listening party, in which they are raving to Rachmaninov, marvelling over the voices of Cape Verde’s barefoot diva and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, whilst also enjoying the other worldly dream pop of Cocteau Twins and Mahler’s humongous ‘Symphony of a Thousand’.

Playlist:
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Nikolai Lugansky, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo)
Cesária Évora – Sodade
Louis Andriessen - M is for Man, Music, Mozart: Einstein song 
Schubert – String Quintet in C Major, D.956; I. Allegro ma non toppo (Alban Berg Quartett, Heinrich Schiff)
Thom Yorke - Suspirium
Tobias Hume (d.1645) - The Earle of Salisbury's Favoret ‘Sweet Musicke’ (Jordi Savall, Hespérion XXI)
Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
Mahler – Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ Part 1 (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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