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Jess Gillam and cellist Matthew Barley sit down to listen together to the music they love.
Matthew's career as a cellist has seen him straddle any number of different genres and continents. He's just as at home in front of an orchestra as he is improvising in a nightclub, playing chamber music with his wife – the violinist Viktoria Mullova - or going solo and combining his cello with electronics.
Their playlist today is suitably eclectic - Matthew brings a taste of Brazil from the singer Elza Soares and legendary songwriter Jobim, a lament on the duduk and reminisces his first childhood experience of classical music via the music of Beethoven. Jess has Tchaikovsky ballet music bursting with tunes, some sunshine by Marianna Martines and mandolin player Avi Avital and a beautiful piece of Junk by Paul McCartney.
Playlist:
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: Agua de Beber [Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano)]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake – Act 4 finale [London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)]
ELZA SOARES: Flores Horizontais
MANUEL DE FALLA: No. 4 Jota from Canciones populares españolas [Avi Avital (mandolin)]
DJIVAN GASPARYAN: 7 December 1988 [Djivan Gasparyan (duduk/voice)]
MARIANNA MARTINES: Overture in C major – 1st mvt [La Floridiana]
PAUL MCARTNEY: Junk
BEETHOVEN: Symphony no 6 (Pastoral) – 1st mvt “Erwachen heiterer…” [Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Jarvi (conductor)]
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Jess Gillam and cellist Matthew Barley sit down to listen together to the music they love.
Matthew's career as a cellist has seen him straddle any number of different genres and continents. He's just as at home in front of an orchestra as he is improvising in a nightclub, playing chamber music with his wife – the violinist Viktoria Mullova - or going solo and combining his cello with electronics.
Their playlist today is suitably eclectic - Matthew brings a taste of Brazil from the singer Elza Soares and legendary songwriter Jobim, a lament on the duduk and reminisces his first childhood experience of classical music via the music of Beethoven. Jess has Tchaikovsky ballet music bursting with tunes, some sunshine by Marianna Martines and mandolin player Avi Avital and a beautiful piece of Junk by Paul McCartney.
Playlist:
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: Agua de Beber [Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano)]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake – Act 4 finale [London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)]
ELZA SOARES: Flores Horizontais
MANUEL DE FALLA: No. 4 Jota from Canciones populares españolas [Avi Avital (mandolin)]
DJIVAN GASPARYAN: 7 December 1988 [Djivan Gasparyan (duduk/voice)]
MARIANNA MARTINES: Overture in C major – 1st mvt [La Floridiana]
PAUL MCARTNEY: Junk
BEETHOVEN: Symphony no 6 (Pastoral) – 1st mvt “Erwachen heiterer…” [Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Jarvi (conductor)]
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