SUNDAY SPECIAL
Celebrating Duke Ellington
Prepared by Paul Cooke
With Veronica Bondarew

Ellington, D. New world a-comin (1943; arr. and ed. Peress).    Benjamin Wesner, cl; Jeffrey Biegel, pf; Brown University O/Paul Phillips.
Naxos 8.573490
[13:34]

Ravel, M. Piano concerto in G (1931).    Yuja Wang, pf; Zurich Tonhalle O/Lionel Bringuier.
DG 479 5524 [20:34]

Ellington, D. Harlem (1951; orch. Henderson, ed. Mauceri).    City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle.
EMI 5 57014 2 [14:10]

Ellington, D. Black from black, brown and beige (arr. Hunt).    Simon Tedeschi, pf; Kevin Hunt, pf.
ABC 275 2052 [10:12]

Grieg, E. Excerpts from Peer Gynt suites nos 1 and 2 (1875; arr. Ellington, Strayhorn).    Duke Ellington O.
Intense 600308 [17:41]

Banks, D. Prologue; Night piece; Blues for two (1968).    Nigel Westlake, cl; David Bollard, pf.
Tall Poppies TP004 [06:24]

Ellington, D. Suite from The river (1970; orch. Collier).    Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.
Chandos CHAN 9154 [26:50]