45/60: Jazz
Friday 28 September 2007 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on the course of classical music.
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44/60. Jazz
It bubbled up from the streets, drawing on the singing of spirituals and the early blues. But how did jazz influence classical composers like Stravinsky, Debussy and Satie? Music includes Stravinsky's Ragtime, Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand and Lambert's The Rio Grande.
Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit
Orchestre National de Lille-Region Nord
Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor)
Naxos 8.557287 Track 2
Stravinsky: Ragtime
European Soloist Ensemble
Vladimir Ashkenazy (director)
Decca 448 177-2 Track 1
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Samson Francois (piano)
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Andre Cluytens (conductor)
EMI 2904472 Track 4
Weill: The Ballad of Mack the Knife
Theo Mackeben's Jazz Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
Naxos Nostalgia 8.120831 Track 1
Lambert: Rio Grande
Jack Gibbons (piano)
English Northern Philharmonia
Chorus of Opera North
Leeds Festival Chorus
David Lloyd Jones (conductor)
Hyperion CDA 66565 Track 1
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