BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night is Music Night is all about melody and tonight at Fairfield Halls conductor Helen Harrison and the BBC Concert Orchestra have their feet planted in the streets and fields of British folksong. All the music has one thing in common – you can’t help humming those tunes!

Two of the BBC Concert Orchestra's brightest stars Ileana Ruhemann and Anne Denholm play Mozart’s enchanting Flute and Harp Concerto. There’ll be tuneful delights by Ruth Gipps, Hoagy Carmichael and John Williams, too - presented with style (and a smile) by jazz legend Clare Teal.

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Programme of performances

Arthur Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – overture

Wolfgang Amadeus:Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp – slow movement

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: La tarantelle fretillante

Ruth Gipps: Ambarvalia - A Dance

Ernest Tomlinson: Second Suite of English folk songs

Malcolm Arnold:Scottish Dances

John Williams: Stargazers from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Ernest Tomlinson: First Suite of English Folk Songs – Dick’s Maggot

Hoagy Carmichael: Skylark

Clive Jenkins: Tamarside

Ernest Tomlinson: Silverthorn Suite - Alla Marcia; Canzonet; Concert Jig