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Jess Gillam with... Kate Whitley

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

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27 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Nov 2023 12:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Ozsuca-Rattle. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.

  • Kate Whitley

    Ripples

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.

  • Kate Whitley

    I am I say (final section)

    Singer: Sarah-Jane Lewis. Singer: Ashley Riches. Choir: Choirs from Kender, Lyndhurst and John Donne Primary Schools. Orchestra: The Multi-Story Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Stark.
    • NMC.

  • The Multi-Story Orchestra

    The Endz

  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita (Sarabande)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
    • New Amsterdam.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; A Night On The Bare Mountain.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.

  • ΅ώΒαΓΆ°ω°μ

    Pneumonia

    • Polydor.

  • Yo‐Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile

    Attaboy

    • Sony.

  • Jeannette Sorrel & Apollo’s Fire

    La Folia - "Madness": Concerto grosso, after the Sonata No. 12, Op. 1

    • Vivaldi: La Folia (Madness) & Other Concertos.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • David Byrne & Mitski

    This is a Life

    • A24 Music.

  • Gabriele Mirabassi & Luciano Biondini

    Girotondo

    • EGEA.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Parlophone.

  • Elvis Presley

    Always On My Mind

    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Nov 2023 12:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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