Jess Gillam with... Plínio Fernandes

Jess is joined in the studio by Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes to share the music they love. Plínio shares his Latin roots with Villa-Lobos, Albéniz and a beautiful duet by Elis Regina and Tom Jobim, and Jess offers up Bartok inspired Jazz from Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter, a fiendishly difficult concerto by John Adams and Scott Walker is lamenting the weather.

Playlist: Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, W.424; IV. Danza [Michael Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony] Eddie Sauter / Stan Getz - I’m Late, I’m Late Beethoven - Bagatelles, Op. 33: V. Allegro, ma non troppo [Cristian Budu] Scott Walker - It’s Raining Today Isaac Albeniz - Suite espanola no. 1, Op.47; III. Sevilla [Julian Bream] John Adams - Saxophone Concerto; II. Molto vivo: a hard, driving pulse [Timothy McAllister (sax), St Louis Symphony, David Robertson] Elis Regina & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Águas de março Johann Sebastian Bach – O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht Motet, BWV 118 [English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner]