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Jess Gillam and harpist Cecilia De Maria share the music they love, with Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air, Grieg's Holberg suite, new jazz sounds from Polar Bear, Dorothy Ashby's Soul Vibrations from Afro-Harping and classic film theme by John Williams.Playlist: Edvard Grieg - Holberg suite Op.40 vers. for string orchestra: Praeludium (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi) Pierne - Impromptu Caprice (Marisa Robles - harp) Polar Bear - Peepers Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March (Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer) Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations from Afro-Harping Allegri – Miserere (Tallis Scholars) John Williams - Jurassic Park theme

Jess Gillam talks to mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards about the music they love, including the overture to Mozart's Don Giovanni, Jessye Norman singing Mahler, Lianne La Havas singing Radiohead and Slim Gaillard singing about his Cement Mixer!

Jess Gillam and composer Robert Reid Allan share Glenn Gould playing Brahms, film music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sufjan Stevens, new music by composer Oliver Leith, and South African soprano Pumeza singing a Scottish song of diversity and inclusion.