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Jess Gillam with... Neil Tennant

Jess swaps favourite music with singer-songwriter and co-founder of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant.

Jess swaps favourite music with singer-songwriter and co-founder of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant.

Pet Shop Boys have sold over 100million pop records, but Neil also has a lifelong love of classical music, he played the cello as a child and grew up around church music, and he tells Jess how this influenced Pet Shop Boys songs - whether that's pure vocal lines of Hildegard von Bingen or the dense harmony of Shostakovich.

He brings with him music by Hildegard, a cantata by JS Bach, Lotte Lenya singing about September and a classic Miles Davis recording. While Jess has a classic Otis Redding cover, Shostakovich's Fifth symphony and a gorgeous slow movement by Prokofiev.

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Sat 8 Jun 2024 17:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Danse Villageoise (Suite Pastorale)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Mirare.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Help Me

    Orchestra: Wroclaw Score Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
    • Parlophone.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Parlophone.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens (Prince Igor)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug (Cantata No 82)

    Performer: Julia Schr枚der. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Bach: Cantatas.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Jimmy Campbell

    Try A Little Tenderness

    Composer: Reginald Connelly. Composer: Harry M. Woods. Performer: Otis Redding.
    • Rhino Atlantic.

  • Miles Davis

    骋茅苍茅谤颈辩耻别

    • Fontana.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.10 in E minor, Op.93 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Shirley Bassey

    The Performance of My Life

    • Geffen.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Symphonia virginum: O dulcissime amator

    Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • RCA.

  • Kurt Weill

    September Song (Knickerbocker Holiday)

    Performer: Lotte Lenya. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Maurice Levine.
    • CBS.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.2 Op.22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.

  • Lautari

    Tryptyk II

    • Wodzirej.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Jun 2024 17:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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Why are more young people listening to classical music?

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