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Matilda Lloyd and Leon Foster Thomas reach for the skies

Add to Playlist Series 7

Trumpeter Matilda Lloyd and steel pan player Leon Foster Thomas join Cerys and Jeffrey as they add the next five tracks.

Trumpet player Matilda Lloyd and gold steel pan player Leon Foster Thomas bring their instruments to the studio as they join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add five more tracks to the playlist, each chosen for its musical connections with the previous one.

In this episode the journey takes us from Mozart via a classic jazz trio to a 1964 kite-flying Disney singalong hit.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Molto allegro from Symphony No. 40 in G Minor by Mozart
Easy Does It by Oscar Peterson Trio
I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
Kwa Heri Mafisadi by Mwana Cotide
Let’s Go Fly a Kite from Mary Poppins

Other music in this episode:

Bliss by Leon Foster Thomas
Tarantella Napoletana played by Matilda Lloyd
Hands Up by Cherry Bullet
I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton

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42 minutes

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Sat 4 Nov 2023 22:15
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