Friday Night Is Music Night: King's Lynn Festival > Concert Cast

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Recording ID

30458

Title

Friday Night Is Music Night: King's Lynn Festival

Source

BBC Radio 2Concert Cast

Year

2015-07-20

Type

Noncommercial Audio

Subtype

Concert Cast

Notes

Friday Night is Music Night - Ken Bruce presents the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Richard Balcombe in a concert celebrating the Magic of the Musicals from the Kings Lynn Festival.

Now in its 65th year - the Kings Lynn Festival was founded in 1951 by Lady Fermoy to compliment the Festival of Britain celebrations taking place in London that year. Lady Ruth Fermoy was confidante and lady in waiting to Her Majesty Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Lady Fermoy herself was an accomplished concert pianist who had studied in Paris but whose musical career ended when she married. The very first Kings Lynn Festival included the likes of Benjamin Britten, Kathleen Ferrier, John Betjeman, Peter Pears, Peggy Ashcroft, Osbert Sitwell, Shura Cherkassky and Peter Ustinov.

Many great orchestras have visited the festival over the years- and Radio 2's long running orchestral show - Friday Night is Music Night - has been a regular visitor.

Tonight's show features hits from musical theatre with West End stars Ria Jones and Michael Dore - plus an appearance by the current Phantom of the Opera - Geromino Rauch.

The programme includes - songs by the greats of musical theatre - Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Boublil and Schoenberg, Bock and Harnick, Stephen Sondheim and Lerner and Loewe.

Recording venue

Lynn Corn Exchange

Recording group

BBC Radio 2

Recording language

English

Location

UK / England / King's Lynn

Method

Live

Completion score

14

Music

[p1312 Lloyd Webber, Andrew]
[p2660 Newley, Anthony]
[p5455 Manilow, Barry]
[p60 Andersson, Benny]
[p120446 Ulavaeus, Bjorn]
[p50074 Schönberg, Claude-Michel]
[p1082 John, Elton]
[p1321 Loewe, Frederick]
[p168 Berlin, Irving]
[p204 Bock, Jerry]
[p975 Herman, Jerry]
[p2092 Styne, Jule]
[p239 Bricusse, Leslie]
[p1838 Rodgers, Richard]
[p2024 Sondheim, Stephen]

Lyrics

[p5257 Boublil, Alain]
[p2660 Newley, Anthony]
[p5455 Manilow, Barry]
[p2181 Ulvaeus, Björn]
[p1483 Merrill, Bob]
[p930 Hart, Charles]
[p901 Hampton, Christopher]
[p189 Black, Don]
[p1202 Kretzmer, Herbert]
[p975 Herman, Jerry]
[p5063 Hall, Lee]
[p239 Bricusse, Leslie]
[p2024 Sondheim, Stephen]
[p1801 Rice, Tim]

Conductor

[p20240 Balcombe, Richard]

Performer

[p19053 Rauch, Gerónimo]
[p566 Dore, Michael]
[p13345 Jones, Ria]

Musician

[p27769 BBC Concert Orchestra, ]