Episode 5
An archive concert featuring Eartha Kitt performing with the Nash Ensemble and pianist Richard Rodney Bennett in songs by Weill, Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart.
Tom Service introduces the fifth of six concerts celebrating 40 years of Radio 3.
Recorded in December 1972, star of song, stage and screen Eartha Kitt thrilled a capacity audience at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The legendary chanteuse was joined by the Nash Ensemble for songs by Kurt Weill, and then pianist-composer Richard Rodney Bennett accompanied her in a sequence of his own arrangements of American classics from the 20s and 30s.
The programme also included Nash Ensemble party pieces by Stravinsky and Martinu.
Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale
Weill: Overture; Mack the Knife; Barbara Song (The Threepenny Opera); Bilbao Song; Matrosen Tango; Surabaya Jonny; Hard Nut (Happy End)
Martinu: La revue de cuisine
Cole Porter: Anything goes; My heart belongs to Daddy
Gershwin: My man's gone now
Cole Porter: Love for sale
Harold Arlen: I wonder what became of me
Rodgers and Hart: Ten cents a dance
Cole Porter: Let's misbehave
Eartha Kitt (voice)
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
Nash Ensemble
Marcus Dods (conductor).
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- Tue 30 Oct 2007 19:0091热爆 Radio 3