Jess's guest this week is composer Isobel Waller-Bridge. Best known for her work in TV and film, Isobel has scored The Split, Fleabag, Emma, Vita & Virginia and many more, but she's also a prolific composer for the theatre and is known for her evocative contemporary classical and electronic music for the concert hall.
Jess and Isobel sit down for a listening party of the music they love the most - Isobel offers some stunning moments of calm by Hinako Omori and Emily Hall and a tuba jam by Sons of Kemet, while Jess interupts the peace with Sibelius at his most joyously epic, an intimate song by Noah Yorke and possibly the funkiest string quartet ever written by Ravel.
Playlist:
EMILY HALL: Mantra SIBELIUS: Symphony no.2 - finale [Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)] HINAKO OMORI: Yearning RAVEL: String Quartet - 2nd mvt 'Assez vif' [Quator Ebène] SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS: Open Your Eyes CHOPIN: Nocturne no.8 in D flat major, op.27 no.2 [Maurizio Pollini (piano)] NOAH YORKE: Trying too Hard (Lullaby) SONS OF KEMET: To Never Forget the Source