This Classical Life - Jess Gillam with... Lotte Betts-Dean

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Jess Gillam meets with London based Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean for virtual lockdown listening party, in which they are raving to Rachmaninov, marvelling over the voices of Cape Verde’s barefoot diva and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, whilst also enjoying the other worldly dream pop of Cocteau Twins and Mahler’s humongous ‘Symphony of a Thousand’.

Playlist:
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Nikolai Lugansky, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo)
Cesária Évora – Sodade
Louis Andriessen - M is for Man, Music, Mozart: Einstein song
Schubert – String Quintet in C Major, D.956; I. Allegro ma non toppo (Alban Berg Quartett, Heinrich Schiff)
Thom Yorke - Suspirium
Tobias Hume (d.1645) - The Earle of Salisbury's Favoret ‘Sweet Musicke’ (Jordi Savall, Hespérion XXI)
Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
Mahler – Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ Part 1 (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

Published on Saturday, 11th July 2020.

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