Paris in the Jazz Age

The BBC Concert Orchestra, live from Alexandra Palace, with violinist and conductor Fiona Monbet, in Gershwin's American in Paris, and clarinettist Giacomo Smith in works by Ellington, Reinhardt and Debussy.

A Friday Night is Music Night featuring French music and jazz from the early years of the 20th century. The orchestra is joined by the effortlessly virtuosic clarinettist Giacomo Smith.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Cole Porter, arr Stanley Black: I love Paris
Sidney Bechet, arr Guy Barker: Si tu vois ma mère
Pierre Louiguy, arr Leon Young: La vie en rose
Bud Powell, arr Giacomo Smith: Parisian Thoroughfare
Gershwin: An American in Paris

INTERVAL

Debussy: Première rhapsodie
Django Reinhardt, arr Guy Barker: Nuages
Robert Farnon: A la claire fontaine
Duke Ellington: Paris Blues

Clarinet: Giacomo Smith
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor: Fiona Monbet