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Jess Gillam with... Bishi

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with singer, rock sitarist and composer Bishi, including a Shankar and Glass collaboration, Holst in space and Cosmo Sheldrake's cuckoos.

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with singer, rock sitarist and composer Bishi. Together they journey through evocations of space from Meredith Monk, Holst and Roger Webb back home to different shades of the human voice in music - from sacred vocal music from the 15th century, via a Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass collaboration, the unique voice of Beverly Glenn-Copeland and singer Cosmo Sheldrake's wake-up call from the cuckoo.

Playlist:

RAVI SHANKAR/PHILIP GLASS: Prashanti
TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA: O Magnum Mysterium [Voces8]
STRAVINSKY – Petrushka – Tableau 1 Fete Populaire de la semaine grasse [Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (cond)]
ROGER WEBB: Moonbird (Heaven and Hell)
MEREDITH MONK: Atlas Part 3 – Invisible Light: Earth Seen from Above
HOLST: The Planets – Mars [London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (cond)]
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND: La Vita
COSMO SHELDRAKE: Cuckoo Song

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29 minutes

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Sat 4 Feb 2023 12:30

Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Ozsuca-Rattle. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.
  • Bishi

    Albion Voice

    • Albion Voice: Di Ti Maria.
    • Gryphon.
    • 3.
  • Philip Glass

    Prashanti

    Composer: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Philip Glass.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O magnum mysterium - motet for 4 voices

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka - Tableau 1, Shrovetide Fair

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Roger Webb Orchestra

    Moon Bird (Heaven and Hell)

    • De Wolfe Music.
  • Meredith Monk

    Earth Seen from Above (Atlas, Part 3)

    Conductor: Steve Lockwood. Orchestra: Unknown.
    • Atlas (An Opera In Three Parts).
    • BMG Classics.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mars (The Bringer of War) From The Planets – Suite, op.32

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
  • Beverley Glenn-Copeland

    La Vita

    • ORG.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Cuckoo! (Friday afternoons Op.7)

    Singer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • Wake Up Calls.
    • Tardigrade Records.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Feb 2023 12:30

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