Guy Barker’s latest Britten and Henry James-inspired work featuring Kurt Elling, symphony orchestra and big band airs tonight
Tonight Radio 3 is to live broadcast Guy Barker’s latest work That Obscure Hurt premiered at Snape Maltings in Suffolk and inspired by a Henry James short story, The Jolly Corner was commissioned as part of the ongoing Benjamin Britten centenary and is the first new work created during Barker’s tenure as associate composer of the BBC Concert Orchestra. Barker traces the piece’s origins back to his Mozart-inspired piece ‘dZf’, his re-imagining of The Magic Flute, and on That Obscure Hurt the trumpeter has again teamed up with novelist Robert Ryan (Underdogs) to collaborate on the storyline. The pieces spans symphonic music and contemporary jazz with a symphony orchestra, 15-piece jazz band, and the great jazz singer Kurt Elling guesting with actress Janie Dee narrating. The broadcast is at 7.30 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02lqfjg
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