From the Queen Elizabeth Hall ,
London, a concert featuring composer and saxophonist Barbara Thompson. In the first half she is joined by the Medici Quartet to play arrangements of Kurt Weill , works by John Dankworth , Nell Ardley , Barry Guy ,
Richard Rodney Bennett , Geoffrey Burgon.
Mike Westbrook and Thompson herself.
8.15 Interval Geoffrey Smith talks to Barbara
Thompson and others about her career.
8.35 The first performance of Love Songs in Age, a Radio 3 commission based on poems by Philip Larkin , composed and arranged by Barbara Thompson. Barbara Thompson (saxophone) BBC Singers
Medici Quartet
Peter Lemer (keyboards) Paul Westwood
(bass guitars)
Simone Rebello (percussion) conductor Bo Holten
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