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Live music from Shear Brass, and harpist Elizabeth Bass

Petroc Trelawny is joined in 80A by a quintet from Shear Brass, to present music by Sir George Shearing. Harpist Elizabeth Bass is also in session.

Petroc Trelawny is joined by Shear Brass - in a quintet formation - to present music from their album Extraordinary Journey, celebrating the music of Sir George Shearing, and to discuss their upcoming UK tour. Elizabeth Bass - Principal Harpist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra - is also live in the studio, to perform ahead of her appearance with the BBC SO at the Barbican Centre in London on 30th January.

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Fri 23 Jan 202617:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Cole Porter

    'Do I Love You?'

    Ensemble: Shear Brass.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 for solo violin: I. Allemande

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach Sonatas and Partitas - Renaud Capucon.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness (Waltz Suite Op.110)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Claude Debussy

    Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Gradus ad Parnassum.
    • Warner Music UK.
    • 08.

  • George Shearing

    Black Satin

    Ensemble: Shear Brass.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction & Allegro

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite for harp: Overture and Toccata (mvts 1 & 2)

    Performer: Elizabeth Bass.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse

    Performer: Cécile Ousset.
    • French Piano Music: Debussy, Ravel, Chabrier, Saint-Saëns & Satie.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • John Dowland

    Can she excuse my wrongs

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Dowland - The Art of Melancholy.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.

  • George Shearing

    Just a Mood

    Lyricist: Carl Gorham. Ensemble: Shear Brass.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    The Silver Swan

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals.
    • Virgin.
    • 12.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Romain Guyot. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Mats Zetterqvist. Performer: Pascal Siffert. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Mozart: Concerto & Quintet for clarinet: Romain Guyot/Chamber Orchestra of Europ.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.

  • Marcel Tournier

    L'éternel rêveur

    Performer: Elizabeth Bass.

  • Detlev Glanert

    Harp Concerto - cadenza extract

    Performer: Elizabeth Bass.

  • Grace Williams

    Hiraeth

    Performer: Elizabeth Bass.

  • Traditional Spiritual

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Ernest Irving. Singer: Paul Robeson. Conductor: Ernest Irving Orchestra with Chorus.
    • Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 725.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3, 'Organ Symphony' (Finale)

    Performer: Noel Rawsthorne. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Loris Tjeknavorian.
    • Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3, Danse, Carnival.
    • Regis.

  • Hubert Parry

    I Know My Soul Hath Power to Know All Things (Songs of Farewell)

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Songs of Farewell.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.

  • George Shearing

    Lullaby of Birdland

    • Nice 'N' Easy.
    • Play Digital.
    • 33.

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Jan 202617:00
    BBC Radio 3

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