Jess Gillam is joined by violinist Ellie Consta to share some of the music they love the most. Ellie is the founder of Her Ensemble which champions the work of female composers and strives to present classical music in new diverse ways, and her music choices reflect that - from Florence Price's dreamy Clouds to Little Simz Mercury-winning homage to women everywhere, Woman.
Jess brings along the majesty of Mozart's Requiem, some lunar insanity on the theremin and a cracker of a song by Bettye Swann.
Playlist:
FLORENCE PRICE: Clouds [Lara Downes (piano)]
HARRY REVEL: Lunar Rhapsody (from Music Out of the Moon) [Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman (theremin), Vocal Group and Orchestra/Les Baxter (bandleader)]
TIGRAN HAMASYAN: The Dream Voyager
MOZART: Requiem in D minor – Sequentia…Lachrimosa [Swedish Radio Choir, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado]
LILI BOULANGER: Nocturne [Janine Jansen (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)]
BETTYE SWANN: Tell it Like it Is
GEORGE ANTHEIL: Over the Plains [BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards]
LITTLE SIMZ: Woman
