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Jess Gillam with... Rob Luft

Jess Gillam is ed by jazz guitarist Rob Luft to swap tracks and share the music they love, with music from Bach, James Blake and Billie Holiday.

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29 minutes

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Sat 25 Sep 2021 12:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.

  • Rob Luft

    Calabash

    Performer: Rob Luft. Performer: Corrie Dick. Singer: Tom McCredie.

  • Kishori Amonkar

    Raga Sampurna Malkaus

    Performer: Sultan Khan. Singer: Kishori Amonkar.

  • Nils Frahm

    Hammers

    Performer: Nils Frahm.

  • Richard Rodgers

    My Funny Valentine

    Performer: Nils Frahm. Performer: F.S. Blumm.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Revirado

    Ensemble: Astor Piazzolla and His Tango Quintet.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in Ca Major Op. 48: IV Finale (Tema Russo)

    Ensemble: Moscow Soloists. Conductor: Yuri Abramovich Bashmet.
    • Onyx.

  • Matt Dennis

    Violets For Your Furs

    Performer: John Coltrane. Performer: Billie Holiday. Ensemble: Ray Ellis and His Orchestra.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Paul Motian

    Birdsong

    Performer: Paul Motian. Performer: Stefano Bollani.

  • Movses Khorenatsi

    Great and Marvelous Mystery

    Performer: Unknown.

  • James Blake

    Retrograde

    Performer: James Blake.

  • Silk Road Ensemble & Bill Frisell

    If You Shall Return...

  • Rob Luft

    Sad Stars

    Performer: Rob Luft. Performer: Corrie Dick. Singer: Tom McCredie.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 21 Mar 2020 12:30
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sat 25 Sep 2021 12:30
    BBC Radio 3

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    Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too.