£10
Available online from Thursday 21 April
Claire Martin vocalist
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett piano
‘A Couple of Swells’
In the year of his 75th birthday, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin present the Irving Berlin Songbook.
Claire and Richard both share a great love of the American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin, widely considered to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Berlin wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him a legend before he turned thirty.
This brand new show, with classy arrangements by Richard, will include such classics as ‘Let’s face the Music and Dance’, ‘How deep is the Ocean’, ‘What’ll I do?’, ‘Cheek to Cheek’ and ‘Let yourself go’, all delivered with the style and panache that you would expect from these two great friends and world-class artists.
‘What was important on this night was to acknowledge that the finely-crafted marriage of words and music that flourished in the thirties and forties - indeed the golden age of American popular song - simply aren't period pieces, not when a Richard Rodney Bennett is around to pick them up, dust them off and allow their magic to start all over again.’ Glasgow Herald
