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Jess Gillam and recorder player Tabea Debus have a virtual lockdown listening party to share the music they love, including Take 6, Joby Talbot, and Johann Bernhard Bach.Playlist: Johann Bernhard Bach - Ouverture from Suite in E Minor (L’Acheron, Francois Joubert-Caillet) Joby Talbot – Transit of Venus (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Christopher Austin) Michel Legrand -Windmills of your mind (Take 6) Johannes Brahms - Cello sonata no. 1 in E minor Op. 38: 1st mvt Allegor non troppo (Truls Mork , cello; Juhani Lagerspetz, piano) Ugis Praulins - The Nightingale: Tableau VII ‘The Artificial Bird’ (Danish National Vocal Ensemble; Michala Petri, recorder; Stephen Layton, director) Basement Jaxx – Where’s your head at Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Aria, Quando voglio (Anna Prohaska, soprano; Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, director) Maurice Ravel – Concerto in G Major, 1st mvt Allegramente (Martha Argerich, piano; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor)

Jess Gillam and Latvian violinist Roberts Balanas share the music love, including Anna Clyne, Kamasi Washington and Jessye Norman singing Poulenc.This Classical Life is also available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.Here's what we listened to today...Hindemith – Ludus Tonalis (Alena Cherny) Elton John – Bennie and the Jets Anna Clyne – Night Ferry (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ricardo Muti) Poulenc- Les Chemins de l’amour FP 106 (Jessye Norman, Dalton Balwdwin) Paganini – 24 Caprices Op.1 No. 2 in B minor (Itzhak Perlman) Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110: Allegro molto (Borodin Quartet ) JS Bach – Prelude and Fugue in A Major BWV 864 from the Well-Tempered Clavier (Trevor Pinnock) Kamasi Washington – Final Thought

Jess Gillam meets composer Owain Park for a virtual lockdown listening party, with music including Prokofiev, Sam Cooke, Kabantu and JS Bach.Playlist: Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite - Montagues and the Capulets (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti) Judith Bingham - The Drowned Lovers (Tenebrae, Martha McLorinan, Nigel Short) Sam Cooke - A Change is gonna come Copland: Appalachian Spring (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) Rebecca Clarke - Lullaby (Helen Callus - viola, Robert McDonald - piano) Kabantu – Ulidzile! Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Petite suite de concert; III. Un sonnet d’amour (Chicago Sinfonietta, Paul Freeman) JS Bach - St John Passion; Chorus: "Herr, Unser Herrscher" (Polyphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton)