Jess Gillam and baritone Benson Wilson share the music they love, including the voices of Johnny Mathis, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Samoan gospel singer Lani Alo.
Today we played…
Copland – Appalachian Spring: Allegro (Leonard Bernstein, New York Phil)
Erroll Garner - Misty (Johnny Mathis)
Pulp – Common People
Verdi – Don Carlos: "O Carlo, ascolta" from Act IV Scene 2 (Dmitri Hvorostovsky, BBC Welsh SO, Richard Armstrong, recorded at 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World final)
Interpol – Untitled (from Turn on the Bright Lights)
John Rutter – What sweeter music (Choir of King’s College Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Robert Quinney (organ)
Lani Alo – Alo i ou faiva (Lani Alo and Livingston Efu)
Poulenc – Double Piano Concerto in D Minor: III. Finale (Mischa Cheung and Yulia Miloslavaskaya (pianos), Giraud Ensemble Chamber Orchestra, Sergey Simakov)
