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Radio 3,30 Mar 2024,27 mins

Jess Gillam with... Francesca Dego

This Classical Life

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Jess Gillam is joined by Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego to swap some of their favourite music. Francesca has played everywhere from Wigmore Hall to Lincoln Centre New York, and her latest recording of Brahms and Busoni violin concertos with 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska is out now via Chandos. Today Francesca has brought along music from neglected Finnish composer Helvi Leivisk盲 and a fiendish 12-tone work from Schoenberg, while I鈥檝e chosen David Bowie鈥檚 swansong. PLAYLIST: GIOACHINO ROSSINI 鈥 鈥楿na voce poco fa鈥 (Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act 1) [Teresa Berganza (mezzo soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)] PETER MAXWELL DAVIES 鈥 Farewell to Stromness [Richard Casey (piano)] HELVI LEIVISKA 鈥 Orchestral Suite No 2, Op 11 (2nd mvt, Humoresque) [Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)] DAVID BOWIE - Lazarus JOHANNES BRAHMS 鈥 Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op 102 (2nd mvt, Andante) [Salvatore Accardo (violinist), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Kurt Masur (conductor), Gewandhausorchester] ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 鈥 Phantasy for violin and piano [Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Joonas Ahonen (piano)] LANKUM 鈥 Wild Rover Produced by Rachel Gill.

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