This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with Charlotte Harding

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... Charlotte Harding

Jess Gillam with... Charlotte Harding

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Jess Gillam is joined by Charlotte Harding to swap tracks and share the music they love.

Jess Gillam is joined by composer and fellow saxophonist Charlotte Harding to swap tracks and share the music they love.

Jess Gillam is joined by Ivor Novello award winning composer and fellow saxophonist Charlotte Harding to swap tracks, including two saxophone greats - Branford Marsalis and Ivy Benson, other worldly textures from John Luther Adams and Anders Hillborg, and two generations of Prokofievs.

Tracks we played today...

Gabriel Prokofiev – Saxophone Concerto: IV. Allegro Mechanico
Nadia Boulanger - 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano, no.1: Modere
Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite
John Luther Adams - The Wind in High Places: II. Maclaren Summit 
Ivy Benson - Lover
Anders Hillborg - Sirens
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - What, What, What
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.1, 3rd movement

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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