Jess Gillam shares favourite music with conductor Vasily Petrenko, including tracks by Shostakovich, Vivaldi, Duke Ellington and Pink Floyd.
Jess Gillam shares favourite music with conductor Vasily Petrenko.
The St Petersburg-born conductor Vasily Petrenko established himself as one of the UK’s leading conductors with his highly successful tenure at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently he is Music Director of the London-based Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and in this programme he s Jess to share some of his favourite music, giving a conductor’s insight into the big works of Shostakovich and Beethoven, and revealing more eclectic tastes with tracks by Björk and Pink Floyd. Jess, meanwhile, plays Vasily some Vivaldi and Duke Ellington, and music for saxophone and orchestra by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.
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