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Kung Hey Fat Choy!
Welcome to the first edition of The Works in the Year of the Rooster. I am Ben Tse. And I’m Ben Pelletier. Just like the Rooster that gives the year its name, we’re going to start the Lunar New year by making some noise, and by looking back at some of the great musicians who have visited our studio in the previous twelve months. Regular viewers will have seen some of them before, but even if you did, many are performing extra pieces they recorded especially for today’s programme. One of our musical highlights of last year was the visit of German jazz and experimental singer Michael Schiefel who came to our studio in March and performed his song “Maiden Voyage”. Apart from vocalists, we were lucky enough to have many fine instrumentalists in our studio. In July, harpist Emmanuel Ceysson played us two pieces of music from French composers Tournier and Couperin. We’ve saved the Couperin until now. And in November, guitarist Yang Xuefei prepared for us, in advance, a Chinese traditional tune, “Fisherman’s Song at Eventide”.
You probably know that we often feature jazz musicians on the programme, and in October last year we featured a jazz trio from Switzerland twin brothers, Michael and Florian Arbenz and bassist Thomas Lahns, who make up Vein. Here they are with “Ode to the Sentimental Knowledge”. Among our most prized possession s here in the studio is our Steinway piano, and over the years we’ve already had many extremely talented classical, jazz and pop musicians make stunning use of it. Well, those are some of the highlights of last year, and we promise to keep bringing you more live music in the new year. Before we go, from the sublime to the well … not so sublime Ben, Billy Lee from our sister programme 藝坊星期天, and I have a little treat in store for you.
From all of us on The Works, best wishes for a happy and healthy Year of the Rooster.
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