This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with Simon Hofele

This Classical Life

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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... Simon Höfele

Jess Gillam with... Simon Höfele

BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with... Simon Höfele

Jess Gillam swaps tracks with trumpeter Simon Höfele.

Jess Gillam swaps tracks with trumpeter Simon Hofele, from Mahler to Monk.

Jess Gillam swaps tracks with the trumpeter Simon Höfele, from the epic symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich to reflective Beethoven and the repetitive rhythms of Meredith Monk.
 
Here's the music we played today...

Ades - Overture from Powder Her Face, suite for orchestra
Mahler - Symphony No.2 "Resurrection", final movement
Meredith Monk - Ellis Island 
Zimmermann - Concerto for Trumpet “Nobody knows de trouble I see“
Parcels - Lightenup
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, 4th movement
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.1, 2nd movement
Anna Meredith - Heal You

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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