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Clare Teal presents Friday Night is Music Night in a concert recorded last March at the Watford Colosseum.

Clare Teal presents Friday Night is Music Night in a concert recorded last March at the Watford Colosseum. Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with guest baritone Rodney Clarke and guest instrumentalists the Pasadena Roof Orchestra.

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra was founded just over 40 years ago by musician John Arthy who discovered more than 1000 original arrangements for swing and dance band in an attic in Manchester. Amongst them titles like "Puttin' On The Ritz", "Minnie The Moocher", and John's favourite song "Home In Pasadena". In tonight's show they perform Happy Feet' (Jack Yellen) A Cheerful Little Earful (Harry Warren) and You're the Top (Cole Porter).

Baritone Rodney Clarke performs The Toreador's Song from Carmen by Bizet and Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific whilst the orchestra play music from Jesus Christ Superstar (Lloyd Webber) ; ET (John Williams and La Gazza Ladra by Rossini.

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Fri 14 May 201020:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Part One

    • BBC Concert Orchestra

      ET Flying

      (Williams)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Shooting Star

    (Torch)

  • Pasadena Roof Orchestra

    A Cheerful Little Earful

    (Warren)

  • Rodney Earl Clarke

    Toreador's Song

    (Bizet) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Pasadena Roof Orchestra

    Without That Certain Thing

    (Nesbitt)

  • Rodney Earl Clarke

    Lonely Town

    (Bernstein) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Alastair Young

    Magnetic Rag

    (Joplin) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Jesus Christ Superstar

    (Lloyd Webber)

  • Interval Feature

    • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Cb Rumon Gamba

      Overture: Spirit Of London

      (Gordon Langford)

      • Gordon Langford’s Orchestral Classics.
      • Chandos.

  • Grimethorpe Colliery Band

    Rhapsody Espana

    (Emmanuel Chabrier)

    • The Melody Shop.
    • Chandos.

  • The King’s Singers

    Alice In Wonderland

    (Clare/Milligan)

    • Chanson d’amour.
    • BMG Classics.

  • Evelyn Glennie/NPO Cb Barry Wordsworth

    Polkas By The Beautiful Blue Danube

    (Strauss II)

    • Evelyn Glennie Dancin’.
    • RCA.

  • BBC Concert Orchestra Cb Stanley Black

    On Golden Pond

    (Grusin)

    • Friday Night Is Music Night.
    • BBC.

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    The Hippodrome Waltz

    (Gordon Langford)

    • Gordon Langford’s Orchestral Classics.
    • Chandos.

  • Part Two

    • BBC Concert Orchestra

      Overture – Masques et Bergamasques

      (Faure)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Where The Blue Of the Night

    (Ahlert)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Overture - Merrymakers

    (Coates)

  • Rodney Earl Clarke

    Deh! vieni alla finestra

    (Mozart) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Pasadena Roof Orchestra

    Happy Feet

    (Yellen)

  • Pasadena Roof Orchestra

    You're The Top

    (Porter)

  • Alastair Young

    The Darkened Valley

    (Ireland) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Wiener Blut

    (Strauss II)

  • Rodney Earl Clarke

    Some Enchanted Evening

    (Rodgers) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    La Gazza Ladra

    (Rossini)

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 May 201020:00
    BBC Radio 2