Performance on 3 - 40 Years of Radio 3: Archive Recordings - Episode 5

Tom Service introduces the fifth of six concerts celebrating 40 years of Radio 3. Recorded in December 1972, star of song, stage and screen Eartha Kitt thrilled a capacity audience at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The legendary chanteuse was joined by the Nash Ensemble for songs by Kurt Weill, and then pianist-composer Richard Rodney Bennett accompanied her in a sequence of his own arrangements of American classics from the 20s and 30s. The programme also included Nash Ensemble party pieces by Stravinsky and Martinu. Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale Weill: Overture; Mack the Knife; Barbara Song (The Threepenny Opera); Bilbao Song; Matrosen Tango; Surabaya Jonny; Hard Nut (Happy End) Martinu: La revue de cuisine Cole Porter: Anything goes; My heart belongs to Daddy Gershwin: My man's gone now Cole Porter: Love for sale Harold Arlen: I wonder what became of me Rodgers and Hart: Ten cents a dance Cole Porter: Let's misbehave Eartha Kitt (voice) Richard Rodney Bennett (piano) Nash Ensemble Marcus Dods (conductor).