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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Music: Classical

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... Toby Young

Jess Gillam with... Toby Young

BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with... Toby Young

Jess Gillam and composer Toby Young talk about the music they love.

Jess Gillam and composer Toby Young talk about the music they love. With music by Gesualdo, Hindemith, Purcell, the Four Tops and Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan.

Jess Gillam chats to composer and producer Toby Young about the music they love. With sparkling chamber music by Paul Hindemith, a heartbreakling aria by Henry Purcell, plus we'll dip into Motown with the Four Tops and spend some time with glorious choral music from Carlo Gesualdo.

Playlist: 

Carlo Gesualdo – Ecce vidimus eum, Responsories from 1st Nocturn (The King's Singers)
Four Tops - Bernadette
Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik Op.24 No.1 for 12 instruments (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly)
Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth, from Act III of Dido and Aeneas (Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev)
Tigran Hamasyan – Ancient Observer
Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma – Your Coffee is a Disaster
Keeno – Nocturne
Giuseppe Verdi - Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore (Choir and Orchestra of la Scala, Milan, Riccardo Muti)

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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Jess Gillam with... Toby Young

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