Organist Anna Lapwood and bassoonist Linton Stephens start the new playlist.

Organist Anna Lapwood and bassoon-player Linton Stephens join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add the first five tracks to the new playlist, from a Yiddish anti-fascist song – with context provided by ethnomusicologist Dr Abigail Wood at the University of Haifa in Israel – to a celebrated homage to Duke Ellington.

Produced by Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with additional music curation, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

Classical Fix, presented by Linton Stephens, returns to BBC Radio 3 next Monday
Radio 3’s Sunday Feature: Yiddish Glory available here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56n

The five tracks in this week’s playlist:

Nitsokhn Lid (Victory Song) from Yiddish Glory
Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus by Olivier Messiaen
Vogue by Madonna
The Creation of Man from The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder

Other music in this episode:

Suite VII in G Minor HV432: Gigue by George Frideric Handel
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dancing Queen by ABBA
Crosstown Traffic by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Hallelujah from Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Fuir le bonheur de peur qu’il ne se sauve by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

Source: BBC Radio 4 – Add to Playlist, Anna Lapwood and Linton Stephens launch the new playlist