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Jess Gillam with... Anastasia Kobekina

Jess swaps favourite music with cellist Anastasia Kobekina, including music by Boulanger, Elgar and Thom Yorke, a perfect Bjork cover and Tchaikovsky from Anastasia's childhood.

Jess's guest this week is the cellist Anastasia Kobekina

Anastasia is known for her musicality, infectious personality and musical imagination. She says her ultimate goal is getting beyond cello technique, beyond the wood, and instead attempting to reach for that feeling when she sings in her most expressive and personal moments. She started playing cello at the age of 4 and has been a prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition and the Enescu Competition and was a Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Jess and Anastasia talk about her life in music, why she wants her cello to be more than just an instrument and swap favourite tracks to listen to including music by Lili Boulanger, Elgar's cello masterpiece and a film score by Thom Yorke, a perfect Bjork cover and Tchaikovsky from Anastasia's childhood

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Music Played

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op.214

    Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G Minor, RV 416: I. Allegro

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Venice.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Limestone & Felt

    • Venice.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • 叠箩枚谤办

    It's Oh So Quiet

    • Post.
    • 143/Lava/Atlantic.
    • 4.
  • Betty Hutton

    It's Oh So Quiet

    • Delta.
  • Horst Winter

    Und jetzt ist es still

    • Austroton.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Bru Zane.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya.
    • Warner.
  • Stan Getz Quintet

    O Grande Amor

    • Verve.
  • Colin Greenwood

    Like Spinning Plates

    Composer: Jonny Greenwood. Composer: Ed O鈥橞rien. Composer: Philip Selway. Composer: Thom Yorke. Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Jean-S茅lim Abdelmoula. Music Arranger: Anastasia Kobekina. Music Arranger: Jean-S茅lim Abdelmoula.
    • Sony.
  • Stromae

    Sante

    • Polydor.
  • Thom Yorke

    Prizegiving

    • XL Recordings.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/Barbirolli.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Singer: N煤ria Rial. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • ERATO.
  • Ellen Reid

    Big Majestic

    • Big Majestic.
    • New Amsterdam Records.
    • 1.

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  • Sat 26 Oct 2024 17:00

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