Geoffrey Smith introduces a concert given in 1995 by this composer and saxophonist as part of the London Jazz Festival. In the first half, she is joined by the Medici Quartet to play arrangements of Kurt Weill pieces by John Dankworth , Geoffrey Burgon ,
Barry Guy , Richard Rodney Bennett , Mike Westbrook and Thompson herself. During the interval, Geoffrey Smith talks to Barbara Thompson about her career and the way her composing has developed, and to some of the other performers in the concert. And in the second half, a performance of Love Songs in Age, a BBC Radio 3 commission based on poems by Philip Larkin.
The performers are
Barbara Thompson (saxophone), Peter Lerner (keyboards), Paul Westwood (bass guitar), Simone Rebello
(percussion) and the BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten.
Repeat