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Jools and guests share their musical favourites

Jools is ed by artist Brian Clarke, with music by Berlioz, Stravinsky and Handel.

Jools shares his lifelong ion for classical music and the beautiful connections with jazz and blues. With fascinating guests each week, who bring their own favourite music and occasionally perform live in Jools's studio.

Today, Jools's choices include music by Joseph Haydn, Steve Reich and Big Maceo, with performances by Nina Simone, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and Antal Dorati. His guest is the artist Brian Clarke, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, who introduces music he loves by Berlioz, Stravinsky, Walton and Handel.

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59 minutes

Last on

Sat 10 May 2025 12:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Singer: Werner Hollweg. Singer: Kurt Moll. Choir: Brighton Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • Decca.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Piano Quartet in F minor, Op 28 (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Big Maceo

    Texas Stomp

    • RCA VICTOR.

  • Steve Reich

    The Four Sections (Full Orchestra)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Four Sections.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • Nina Simone

    I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

    • Colpix.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (March to the Scaffold)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Jansons.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring (Augurs of Spring...Spring Rounds)

    Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • William Walton

    Façade: An Entertainment; 20. Fox-Trot Old Sir Faulk

    Singer: Edith Sitwell. Ensemble: English Opera Group. Conductor: Anthony Collins.
    • Naxos.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Kathleen Ferrier: Bach, Gluck, Handel.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, arr.for piano duet

    Performer: Louis van Dijk. Performer: Hans Oudenaarden. Music Arranger: Brian Easdale.
    • CHANNEL.

  • Paul McCartney

    Let it be

    • Parlophone.

Broadcast

  • Sat 10 May 2025 12:00
    BBC Radio 3