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Jason Rebello

Michael Berkeley meets British jazz pianist Jason Rebello, whose choices include Ivo Pogorelich playing Ravel, Alfred Brendel playing Beethoven as well as Durufle and Bartok.

Michael Berkeley meets British jazz pianist Jason Rebello, who has released several of his own albums as well as working with Sting. He trained as a classical pianist, and his choices include Ivo Pogorelich playing Ravel, Alfred Brendel playing Beethoven and Keith Jarrett improvising on Somewhere Over the Rainbow as well as excerpts from Durufle's Requiem and Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste.

Signature tune
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Duration: 26s

Jason Rebello: Cramp Twins
Jazz Rainbow JRCD1 Tr 1
Muddiman/Ascap
Jason Rebello (piano)
Arnie Somogyi (bass)
Stephen Keogh (drums)
Duration: 3m12s

Ravel: Ondine (Gaspard de la Nuit)
Tharaud: Complete Piano Works
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC90181112 Tr 2
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Duration: 6m29s

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110 (3rd mvt)
Brendel Piano Music
PHILIPS 4327602 Tr 9
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Duration: 9m44s

Durufle: Agnus dei (Requiem, Op 9)
DECCA 4487112 Tr 5
Boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Duration: 4m00s

Keith Jarrett: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
La Scala ECM 537 268-2 Tr 3
Keith Jarrett (piano) (live at Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
(Arlen/E Y Harburg, ASCAP)
Duration: 6m00s

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz106 (1st mvt)
DENON C377122 Tr 1
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Moshe Atzmon (conductor)
Duration: 7m01s

Al Jarreau: Not Like This
Jarreau IE Music 5578472 Tr 8
(Jeremy Lubbock/Hollysongs BMI)
Duration: 2m37s.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 15 Nov 2009 12:00

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  • Sun 15 Nov 2009 12:00

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