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Jess Gillam with... Imogen Whitehead

Jess Gillam meets the trumpet player Imogen Whitehead for a listening party with music by Copland, Barber, Vivaldi and Beyonce.

Jess Gillam swaps music choices and life stories with the trumpet player Imogen Whitehead. Imogen shares her experience of being the Principal Trumpet of the Britten Sinfonia, playing as a soloist and the music she listened to on road-trips growing up. There is music by Copland, Barber, Beyonce and Jess brings choices by Vivaldi, Janacek and Ruhi Erdogan.

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Sat 28 Feb 202617:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Gordon Nikolic. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.

  • Andy Scott

    And Everything is Still

    Performer: Imogen Whitehead. Performer: Jennifer Walsh.
    • World of Sound.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony no.3 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland: Symphony No. 3.
    • SFS Media.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Concerto in in C major, RV 466: mvmt 2 'Adagio'

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Ensemble: I Musici.
    • DECCA.

  • Jay Beckenstein

    Morning Dance

    Ensemble: Spyro Gyra.
    • AMHERST RECORDS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H VIIe 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

  • Leos Janáček

    Kreutzer Sonata: Adagio (Arr. for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • String Quartets for String Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Stephen Dodgson

    Trumpet Concerto: 3rd mvmt Allegro

    Performer: Imogen Whitehead. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • WORLD OF SOUND.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Imogen Whitehead. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • WORLD OF SOUND.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn; Hummel etc.: Trumpet Concertos.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto Op. 14: 1st mvmt Allegro

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • PM CLASSICS.

  • Ruhi-Deniz Erdogan

    Ballad for K

    Performer: Ruhi Erdogan. Performer: Karl Magnus Andersson. Performer: Anton Jonsson. Singer: Viktor Reuter.
    • Hoob Records.

  • Beyoncé

    Listen

    • Sony Urban Music/Columbia.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.

  • Angélique Kidjo

    Kelele

    • Signum Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 28 Feb 202617:00
    BBC Radio 3

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