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... Kate Whitley

Jess Gillam with... Kate Whitley

BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with... Kate Whitley

Composer Kate Whitley joins Jess to swap some of their favourite tracks.

Composer Kate Whitley joins Jess to swap some of their favourite tracks, including music by Bjork, Vivaldi, Mussorgsky, Caroline Shaw and the Pet Shop Boys.

Jess's guest this week is the composer Kate Whitley.

Kate is an award-winning composer and pianist, who also runs the Multi-Story Orchestra. The orchestra was born in a multi-story car park in Peckham, and perform in car parks around the country, as they wanted to take classical music out of formal concert halls. They also create hugely powerful musical projects like the RPS Award-winning The Endz that involve the local community and young people in their music making.

Kate and Jess settle in for a listening party of the music they love including a beautiful work by Caroline Shaw and Bjork, the biggest of brass by Mussorgsky, bluegrass courtesy of the Goat Rodeo and a contender for greatest ever cover version by the Pet Shop Boys.

Playlist:

CAROLINE SHAW – Partita for 8 Singers: 2. Sarabande [Roomful of Teeth]
MUSSORGSKY – Night on Bald Mountain [Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)]
BJORK: Pneumonia
GOAT RODEO - Attaboy [Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Yo Yo Ma]
VIVALDI – La Folia [Apollo’s Fire, Jeannette Sorell]
SON LUX - This is a Life [Mitski, David Byrne]
GABRIELE MIRABASSI – Girotondo [Gabriele Mirabassi [clarinet), Luciano Biondini (accordion)]
PET SHOP BOYS: Always on My Mind

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... Kate Whitley

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