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Jess Gillam with... Tom Poster

Jess is joined by the pianist Tom Poster to swap some of the music they love the most, including Berlioz and Handel, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Hisaishi and a horn concerto by Neruda.

Jess's guest this week is the pianist Tom Poster. Equally at home in front of an orchestra, performing solo or playing chamber music, Tom is also one of classical music's great collaborators. As well as a pianist he's an arranger, a composer and the co-founder (with his wife violinist Elena Urioste) of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - described as a “sparky, shape-shifting ensemble of starry young musicians".

Tom and Jess load up the This Classical Life jukebox with the music they love, including some glorious Handel performed by Alison Balsom and Iestyn Davies, a twisted orchestral tale by Berlioz, a toe tapper by Ella Fitzgerald and something joyous by Joe Hisaishi from My Neighbour Totoro.

Plus Jess plays some of the best music to take you into Saturday evening.

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Last on

Sat 27 Apr 2024 17:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Baby Serenade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Essentials.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 301.

  • Mel Bonis

    Sonata op.112 - 2nd mvt

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastoral"

    Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Edition Classics.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Manhattan

    • Verve.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (March to the scaffold)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Daniel Harding.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

  • Martin Hayes Quartet

    The Boy in the Gap

    Performer: Martin Hayes Quartet.
    • The Blue Room.
    • kontraband.store/martinhayes.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat - D.899 no 3

    Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Champs Hill.

  • Azumi Inoue

    Ending Theme Song - from My Neighbour Totoro

    • Wasabi records.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Orphic Hymn

    Ensemble: Theatre of Voices. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    A Model of the Universe (The Theory of Everything)

    Performer: Tom Poster. Performer: Hugh Webb. Conductor: Anthony Weeden. Conductor: Ben Foster.
    • The Theory of Everything - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • BLACK LOT MUSIC.
    • 23.

  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda

    Horn Concerto in E Flat Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 301.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphonies No.1 & 3/Finlandia: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/O.
    • Erato.
    • 8.

  • Alabaster dePlume

    Whiskey Story Time

    • Lost Map Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 Apr 2024 17:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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