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A jazz flourish on Shakespeare's 400th birthday: Geoffrey Smith presents swinging impressions of the Bard, including Cleo Laine and John Dankworth's Shakespeare and all that Jazz, and Duke Ellington's suite, Such Sweet Thunder.

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Sun 24 Apr 201600:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Cleo Laine & John Dankworth

    If Music Be The Food of Love

    • Shakespeare - And All That Jazz.
    • Fontana.
    • 1.

  • Cleo Laine

    Winter (Love's Labour's Lost)

    • Shakespeare - And All That Jazz.
    • Fontana.
    • 4.

  • Cleo Laine

    Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 10.

  • Cleo Laine

    Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 9.

  • Cleo Laine

    Duet of Sonnets

    • Shakespeare - And All That Jazz.
    • Fontana.
    • 3.

  • Duke Ellington & Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Sonnet To Hank Cinq

    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 3.

  • Cleo Laine

    Take All My Loves

    • Shakespeare and All That Jazz.
    • SPECTRUM MUSIC.
    • 16.

  • Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Jimmy Hamilton

    Sonnet For Caesar

    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

  • Cleo Laine

    My Love Is As A Fever

    • SHAKESPEARE AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
    • FONTANA.
    • 5.

  • Cleo Laine

    Witches, Fair and Foul

    • SHAKESPEARE AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
    • FONTANA.
    • 11.

  • Cleo Laine

    You Spotted Snakes

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 2.

  • Duke Ellington & Duke Ellington

    Up And Down, Up And Down

    • SUCH SWEET THUNDER.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 7.

  • Cleo Laine

    When That I Was and A Little Tiny Boy

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 8.

  • Cleo Laine

    Who Is Silvia?

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 14.

  • Cleo Laine

    Fear No More The Heat O'The Sun

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 4.

  • Cleo Laine

    Sigh No More, Ladies

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 6.

  • Duke Ellington & Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Lady Mac

    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 4.

  • Cleo Laine

    Dunsinane Blues

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 7.

  • John Dankworth & Cleo Laine

    The Compleat Works

    • wordsongs.
    • phillips.
    • 15.

  • Cleo Laine

    Our Revels Now Are Ended

    • WORDSONGS.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 16.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Apr 201600:00
    BBC Radio 3

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