30 October 2007
songs by Weill, Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart.
Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:00-20:45 (Radio 3)
Tom Service introduces the fifth of six concerts celebrating 40 years of Radio 3. Recorded in February 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.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist:
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)
