Jess Gillam with... Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Ahead of his performance at the 2023 Final Night of the Proms, revisit cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's chat with Jess Gillam as they share the music they love. First aired August 2021
Mozart takes us to heavenly plains with his Great Mass, Leroy Anderson plays a typewriter, Max Richter sends us to sleep and we'll hear some heart-wrenching cello playing from Jacqueline du Pr\xe9 in Dvorak's Silent Woods. Plus Jess and Sheku discuss the iconic voices of legends Bob Marley and Nina Simone.
Playlist:\nDvo\u0159\xe1k - Silent Woods for cello and orchestra, Op. 68 No. 5 (Jacqueline du Pr\xe9 - cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim - conductor)\nSam Cooke \u2013 Falling in Love\nMozart - Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' \u2013 Kyrie (Barbara Bonney - soprano, Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado - conductor)\nMargaret Bonds \u2013 Troubled Water (Samantha Ege - piano)\nLeroy Anderson \u2013 The Typewriter (Eastman Rochester Pops Orchestra, Frederick Fennell)\nBob Marley & The Wailers \u2013 African Herbsman\nMax Richter \u2013 Dream 1\nNina Simone \u2013 I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free (Nina Simone - vocals/piano, Studio Orchestra, Sammy Lowe - conductor)