This Classical Life Folgen

Jess is joined this week by the conductor Jamie Phillips. They share some of their favourite tracks and musical discoveries, including Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto, a jazz arrangement of Holst's The Planets, elegiac piano music by Busoni and a track by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band.

Jess Gillam talks to recorder player Lucie Horsch about the music they love including the warm vocal tones of Omara Portuondo, some speaker shaking bass from Mark Guiliana, an early choral classic from Faure and masterful film music from Bernstein and Hans Zimmer.Playlist: Bernstein – West Side Story: Overture [Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story Orchestra, Johnny Green] Omara Portuondo – La sitiera (Rafael Lopez) Mark Guiliana - Bud Schubert – 4 Impromptus Op.142, D.935: No.4 in F minor: Allegro scherzando [Andras Schiff, piano] Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine [City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier] Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes Hans Zimmer - Matera from 'No Time To Die' Handel – Theodora - oratorio in 3 acts: Act 1 sc.4; As with rosy steps the morn [Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket]

Jess Gillam is joined by the conductor Oliver Zeffman to share some of the music they love. Including a rare and beautiful song by Tchaikovsky, a banging tune by Lizzo, plus possibly THE greatest ending in all of music with Mahler’s 8th Symphony.Playlist: Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21, in C Major, K. 467; II. Andante [Mitsuko Uchida (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate] Alex Baranowski - Constellations Lizzo - Good as Hell Pauline Oliveros – The Beauty of Sorrow [extract] Jordan Rakei - Brace Tchaikovsky - None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, TH 93, No. 6 [Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Ivari Ilja (piano)] Abdullah Ibrahim - Maraba Blue Mahler - Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ Part 2: Finale [Leonard Bernstein, The London Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus]