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Jess Gillam with... Vasily Petrenko

Jess Gillam shares favourite music with conductor Vasily Petrenko, including tracks by Shostakovich, Vivaldi, Duke Ellington and Pink Floyd.

Jess Gillam shares favourite music with conductor Vasily Petrenko.

The St Petersburg-born conductor Vasily Petrenko established himself as one of the UK鈥檚 leading conductors with his highly successful tenure at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently he is Music Director of the London-based Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and in this programme he joins Jess to share some of his favourite music, giving a conductor鈥檚 insight into the big works of Shostakovich and Beethoven, and revealing more eclectic tastes with tracks by 叠箩枚谤办 and Pink Floyd. Jess, meanwhile, plays Vasily some Vivaldi and Duke Ellington, and music for saxophone and orchestra by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

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Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    This Classical Life theme - Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: John Harle. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Overture to Pigmalion

    Ensemble: Ensemble Il Caravaggio. Conductor: Camille Delaforge.
    • Chateau de Versailles Spectacles.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Hai Luli! (arr. for violin, harp & string quintet by Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel. Ensemble: Esther Abrami Ensemble.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Alexey Shor

    Piano concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Alpha.

  • Alexey Shor

    Piano concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Alpha.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra

    Jive

    • Jazz from the USSR.
    • Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Musica.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio sonata in D minor, RV 63 (La Folia)

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • 叠箩枚谤办

    Unravel

    • Homogenic.
    • One Little Independent.
    • 3.

  • Kalevi Aho

    Concerto for soprano saxophone - opening (invocatio-presto-cadenza)

    Performer: Anders Paulsson. Orchestra: Lapin kamariorkesteri.
    • Bis.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations, Op 36 (1. Theme)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.

  • Pink Floyd

    Money

    • Dark Side of the Moon.
    • Pink Floyd Records.
    • 6.

  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Performer: Charles Mingus. Performer: Max Roach.
    • Money Jungle.
    • Blue Note.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral'

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude in B major, Op 11 No 11

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Scriabin 鈥� vers la flamme (towards the flame).
    • Bis.
    • 5.

  • Pedair

    Galw d'enw di (Calling Your Name)

    • Dadeni.
    • Sain.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Saturday 17:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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