
Jess Gillam with... Laura van der Heijden
This Classical Life
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I Can't Make the Hills, I'm My New Big Spot
Maud Powell was the first person to perform Sibelius violin concerto in America. She also made a point of having this concerto, Taylor, made for her Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Leonard Cohen's book of longing is a book that sort of floats around my flat. Philip Glass has written a song cycle based on the book of longing. There's something about that voice as well, that gravelly. I find it threatening, actually.
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