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Edinburgh International Festival

Music: Classical

Ronald Brautigam, Esther Hoppe & Christian Poltéra

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival: 2016 Queen's Hall Series

Edinburgh International Festival: 2016 Queen's Hall Series: Episode 4: Simon Keenlyside and Friends

2015 Queen's Hall Series

Episode 4

Episode 4: Simon Keenlyside and Friends

2016 Queen's Hall Series

Simon Keenlyside and Friends

BBC Radio 3 - Edinburgh International Festival, 2016 Queen's Hall Series, Simon Keenlyside and Friends

Baritone Simon Keenlyside and a quartet of jazz musicians in a jazz and cabaret concert.

Baritone Simon Keenlyside and a quartet of jazz musicians in a jazz and cabaret concert. With music by Berlin, Kalman, Weill, Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Porter and Ellington.

The distinguished UK baritone Simon Keenlyside presents another side to his artistry, singing a programme of jazz and cabaret with a quartet that features some of the finest musicians on the UK jazz scene today. He draws his songs from Broadway, operetta and the vibrant cabaret scene in Berlin in the 1930s.

Berlin: Isn't This a Lovely Day, from 'Top Hat' 
Kálmán: Tanz 17c, from 'The Duchess of Chicago' 
Kálmán: Lichtreklamen 
Kálmán: Tanz 16b, from 'The Duchess of Chicago' 
Weill: Johnny Johnson's Song 
Kálmán: Tanz No.1 
Kálmán: Cowboy Song, from 'Arizona Lady' 
Weill: Song of the Bigshot, from 'Happy End' 
Weill: Lonely at Home, from 'Street Scene' 
Rodgers: Soliloquy, from 'Carousel' 
Berlin: Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon 
Gershwin: How Long Has This Been Going On?, from 'Funny Face' 
Kern: Let's Begin, from 'Roberta' 

11.45 Interval
Donald Macleod introduces Leonard Bernstein's symphonic suite from 'On the Waterfront', the award-winning Hollywood crime film starring Marlon Brando. 

12.05
Strayhorn: Lush Life 
Carmichael: Stardust 
Ellington: Mood Indigo 
Gershwin: Love Is Here to Stay 
Loewe: On the Street Where You Live, from 'My Fair Lady' 
Porter: What Is This Thing Called Love?, from 'Wake Up and Dream' 
Blane/Martin: The Girl Next Door (The Boy Next Door), from 'Meet Me in St Louis' 
Carmichael: Skylark 
Porter: So in Love, from 'Kiss me, Kate' 
Ellington: Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 
Kern: She Didn't Say Yes, from 'The Cat and the Fiddle' 

Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Howard McGill, saxophone, clarinet, flute, piccolo
Gordon Campbell, trombone
Richard Pryce, double bass
Matthew Regan, piano
Mike Smith, drums, percussion

Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Lindsay Pell.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh for the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival.

Concerts given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh as part of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival

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