Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill in a new series of Classical Fix, mixing bespoke classical playlists for music-loving guests. This week, Jules is joined by Poppy Ajudha, a singer and musician who meshes jazz and R’n’B with soul and electronic music, and counts Barack Obama as a fan of her music.
Poppy Ajudha's playlist:
Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto (1st movement) Patrick Watson - Hommage Nadia Boulanger - 3 pieces for cello and piano (No. 2) Jean Barriere - Sonata for Two Cellos Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms (3rd movement) Anna Meredith - Nautilus
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and' agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.