John Barker saxophone; Tim Sidford piano

Performers

John Barker

saxophone

Tim Sidford

piano

Programme

Bach

Sonata No. 5 in E minor BWV1034

Debussy

Syrinx; Reflets dans l’eau from Images

Roger Boutry

Divertimento

Rodney Rogers

Lessons of the Sky

Piazzolla

Café 1930 & Bordel 1900 from Histoire du Tango

Schulhoff

Hot Sonata (3rd & 4th movements)

Gershwin

Three Piano Preludes

De Rose

Deep Purple

About this concert

John Barker and pianist Tim Sidford demonstrate the saxophone’s remarkable versatility with this attractive and eclectic programme. Classical repertoire is combined with the stylish Jazz and Latin influenced works of later composers.

Barker’s Wigmore Hall debut follows a prizewinning solo career and concerts with Making Music, Park Lane Group and Live Music Now.

‘An astonishingly accomplished saxophonist’ Stephen Pritchard, The Observer