音楽の泉
週末の朝に、さわやかなクラシック音楽を、やわらかい解説を添えてお届けする「音楽の泉」。クラシック音楽入門番組として1948年に放送を開始、今まで数々の名曲をご紹介してきました。曲の合間に、音楽学者の皆川達夫さんが楽曲の解説や作品にまつわるエピソードなどを分かりやすく、やわらかい語り口でお伝えします。
ゆったりと流れる時間のおともに、「音楽の泉」でクラシック音楽をお楽しみください。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/r1/shou/ongaku_izumi.html
放送日： 2011年 7月30日（土）
放送時間： 午前6:00〜午前6:50（50分）
解説： 皆川達夫
− コダーイ、ヤナーチェク管弦楽曲集 −
「ハンガリーのロンド」コダーイ作曲（１０分５５秒）
「夏の夕べ」コダーイ作曲（１６分２７秒）
（演奏）オルフェウス室内管弦楽団
＜グラモフォン ＰＯＣＧ−１０００２＞
「ラシュスコ舞曲集から 第１〜第３曲、第６曲」ヤナーチェク作曲（１４分２１秒）
（演奏）ロンドン・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団
（指揮）フランソワ・ユイブレシュト
ウィークエンドサンシャイン
ブロードキャスター、ピーター・バラカンのナビゲートで送るウィークエンド・ミュージックマガジン。独特の嗅覚とこだわりの哲学でセレクトしたグッド・サウンドと、ワールドワイドな音楽情報を伝える。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/sunshine/
放送日： 2011年 7月30日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
Sunshine Music Festival 2011（Part 1)
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/sunshine/playlist.html?st=20110730
01. On The Air / Peter Gabriel
ALBUM: Plays Live
02. The Devil Gun / Frankie Miller
ALBUM: High Life
03. The Late Greats / Wilco
ALBUM: Kicking Television
04. Try Me / James Brown
ALBUM: Live At The Apollo
05. Bring It On Home To Me / Sam Cooke
ALBUM: Live At The Harlem Square Club
06. Try A Little Tenderness / Otis Redding
ALBUM: Live! In London and Paris
07. She's Not There / The Zombies
ALBUM: Live On The BBC
08. I Heard It Through The Grapevine / Average White Band
ALBUM: Person To Person
09. Aquarela do Brasil / Joao Gilberto
ALBUM: Live at the 19th Montreux Jazz Festival
10. Skeletons / Rickie Lee Jones
ALBUM: Naked Songs
11. Turning Of The Tide / Richard Thompson
ALBUM: Live At The BBC
12. What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding? / Nick Lowe & The Convincers
ALBUM: Untouched Takeaway
13. Smack Dab In The Middle / Ry Cooder
ALBUM: Show Time
14. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down / Miles Davis
ALBUM: Bitches Brew Live
世界の快適音楽セレクション
"快適音楽"を求めるギターデュオのゴンチチによる、ノンジャンル・ミュージック番組。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/kaiteki/
放送日： 2011年 7月30日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前10:55（115分）
ゴンチチ
渡辺亨
− 映画の音楽 −
http://cgi4.nhk.or.jp/topepg/xmldef/epg4.cgi?setup=/fm/kaiteki/hensei/playlist.def&st=20110730090000
「脇役であるとも知らずに」 (ゴンチチ)(3分24秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1058＞
「トリスチ」 (シビル・シェパード)(3分34秒)
＜LES DISQUES DU CREPUSCULE TWI470＞
「ベル・エポック」 (黒木千波留)(3分41秒)
＜RAMBLING REC. RBCP-2498＞
「オールド・フォークス」 (エリック・クロス)(5分50秒)
＜PRESTIGE PRCD-24268-2＞
「カモン・アイリーン」 (ヌーヴェル・ヴァーグ)(2分59秒)
＜COOL POOL LTD. ALNCD17＞
「ランジャニ」 (T・K・ラマムーシ)(2分59秒)
＜rem rec. EM1091＞
「シネマチック」 (オヴァル)(2分16秒)
＜HEADZ HEADZ143＞
「オールド・ウェイツ・キャロル」(ケイト&アン・マクギャリグル)(2分36秒)
＜NONESUCH 79925-2＞
「第一章:スパゲッティは『炒めうどん』ではない。〜セレナータ・カブリ」(ナレーション:伊丹十三、高梨木聖、歌:アルマンダ・ロメオ、演奏:大野雄二とそのグループ)(8分14秒)
＜ULTRA-VYBE INC. CDSOL-1046＞
「ポルタ・ヂ・シネマ」 (ベベート・カスチーリョ)(2分37秒)
＜BISCOIT FINO DDCN-3004＞
「ハント・ウント・シュー」 (ヤー・ケーニヒ・ヤー)(2分33秒)
＜INDIGO 8676-2＞
「ワイドスクリーン」 (ルパート・ホルムズ)(3分38秒)
＜EPIC KE32864＞
「ヴァリディシマ」(ジョセリン・モンゴメリー、デヴィッド・リンチ)(5分07秒)
＜MAMMOTH REC. 354980183-2＞
「やくそく」 (ゴンチチ)(1分57秒)
＜ポニーキャニオン PCCA-02074＞
「トロピカリア(マリオC2011リミックス)」(ベック、セウ・ジョルジ)(3分23秒)
＜VICTOR VICP-64968＞
「オ・レオンジーニョ」 (カエターノ・ヴェローゾ)(3分06秒)
＜UNIVERSAL UCCM-4021＞
「オ・レオンジーニョ」 (ベイルート)(3分20秒)
＜VICTOR VICP-64969＞
「ア・ノイチ」 (マルセル・カメロ)(4分55秒)
＜UNIVERSAL 60252765832＞
「オイ・スパ・ケ・ヴィアハス」(ファナ・モリーナ、カサイ・オールスターズ)(2分55秒)
＜CRAMMED DISCS CRAM169CD1＞
Jazz Library
Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x41z
Harry 'Sweets' Edison
Sat 30 Jul 2011
16:00
BBC Radio 3
In an archive interview with Alyn Shipton, Harry Sweets Edison discusses his best records.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wgyz
The star trumpeter with Count Basie in the 1930s and 40s, Harry Sweets Edison went on to become one of the most recorded trumpet soloists in jazz. In an interview recorded for Radio 3 in 1992 he joined Alyn Shipton to select his favourite recordings from that vast catalogue, including discs with Nat King Cole, Ben Webster and Billie Holiday.
Music played
1. Harry "Sweets" Edison — Blue Lou
Composer: Sampson / Mills Performers: Harry Edison, Shorty Sharrock, t; Murray McEachern, tb; Gus Bivona, cl; Benny Carter, Willie Smith, as; Plas Johnson, Babe Russin, ts; Jimmy Rowles, p; Al Hendrickson, g; Mike Rubin, b; Irv Cottler, d. 2 Dec 1955.
Complete At Midnight / At Riverside Sessions, Lonehill, 10114, Tr 4
2. Lucky Millinder with The Mills Blue Rhythm Band — Rhythm Jam
Composer: Willet Performers: Lucky Millinder dir; Charlie Shavers, Bama Warwick, Harry Edison, t; Sandy Watson, Wilbur DeParis, tb; Tab Smith, as; Eddie Williams, Ronald Haynes, Harold Arnold, ts; Billy Kyle, p; Danny Barker, g; John Williams, b; Lester Nichols, d. 11 Feb 1937
Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1936-37, Classics, 731, Tr 17
3. Lucky Millinder with The Mills Blue Rhythm Band — Camp Meeting Jamboree
Composer: Willet Performers: Lucky Millinder dir; Charlie Shavers, Bama Warwick, Harry Edison, t; Alfred Cobb, Wilbur DeParis, tb; Tab Smith, as; Eddie Williams, Ben Williams, Harold Arnold, ts; Billy Kyle, p; Danny Barker, g; John Williams, b; Lester Nichols, d. 1 July 1937
Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1936-37, Classics, 731, Tr 25
4. Count Basie & His Orchestra — Every Tub
Composer: Edison / Basie Performers: Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Karl George, t; Eddie Durham, Benny Morton, Dan Minor, tb; Earle Warren, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, Jack Washington, reeds; Basie, piano; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 3 Jan 1938.
Count Basie Story, Proper, Properbox 19, CD 1 Tr 14
5. Count Basie Count Basie — Bill’s Mill
Composer: Basie / Roland Performers: Ed Lewis, Snooky Young, Sweets Edison, Emmett Berry, t; Ted Donnelly, George Matthews, Eli Robinson, Bill Johnson, tb; Rudy Rutherford, Preston Love, Buddy Tate, Paul Gonsalves, Jack Washington, reeds, Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Rodney Richardson, b; Shadow Wilson, d. 3 Jan 1947.
Count Basie Story, Proper, Properbox 19, CD 4 Tr 6
6. Count Basie — Just an Old Manuscript
Composer: Don Redman Performers: Ed Lewis, Sweets Edison, Al Killian, Joe Newman t; Ted Donnelly, Louis Taylor, Eli Robinson, Dickie Wells, tb; Earle Warren, Jimmy Powell, Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson, Rudy Rutherford, reeds, Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Rodney Richardson, b; Shadow Wilson, d. 11 Jan 1945.
Circus in Rhythm, Naxos, 8.120820, Tr 17
7. Coleman Hawkins — Girl From Ipanema
Composer: Jobim Performers: Harry Edison, t; Sir Charles Thompson, p; Jimmy Woode, b; Jo Jones, d. 1964.
Live in 62 and 64, Naxos / Jazz Icons, 2119020, DVD
8. Harry Sweets Edison and Ben Webster — Used to be Basie
Composer: Edison Performers: Harry Edison, t; Ben Webster, ts; Jimmy Rowles, p; Barney Kessel, g; Joe Mondragon, b; Alvin Stoller, d. 4 Sept 1956
Complete Sextet Sessions, Lonehill, 10258, CD 1 Tr 2
9. Billie Holiday — I Wished on the Moon
Composer: Rainger / Parker Performers: Harry Edison, t; Ben Webster, ts; Jimmy Rowles, p; Barney Kessel, g; Red Mitchell, b; Alvin Stoller, d. 3 Jan 1957.
The Ben Webster / Harry Edison Sessions, Lonehill, 10355, CD 1 Tr 9
10. Nat King Cole — Route 66
Composer: Bobby Troupe Performers: Harry Edison, t; Nat King Cole, v, p; John Collins, g; Charlie Harris, b; Lee Young, d. 15 Aug 1955.
After Midnight Sessions, Essential Jazz Classics, 55405, Tr 5
11. Harry "Sweets" Edison — Out of Nowhere
Composer: Green / Heyman Performers: Harry Edison, t; Frank Wess, Buddy Tate, ts; Hugh Lawson, p; Ray Drummond, b; Bobby Durham, d. 27 April, 1990.
Swing Summit, Candid, 79050, Tr 3
12. Art Tatum — What Is This Thing Called Love
Composer: Porter Performers: Harry Edison, t; Lionel Hampton, vib; Art Tatum, p; Barney Kessel, g; Red Callender, b; Buddy Rich, d. 7 Sept 1955.
Legendary Art Tatum Sextet 1955 Session, Essential Jazz Classics, 55409, Tr 2
Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 30 Jul 2011
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' jazz requests, including Erroll Garner and Clark Terry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wgz1
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests including Erroll Garner's tribute to the Beatles, a different take on Take Five by Dave Brubeck. Chris Barber hits the Lonesome Road and Wilbur De Paris heads for Minorca. Trumpeter Clark Terry "plays" Shakespeare's Puck in Duke Ellington's Up and down, up and down and there's a birthday tribute to saxophonist Barbara Thompson. Also featured are performances by Jimmy Giuffre, Oscar Peterson and Johnny Hodges.
Music played
1. Wynton Marsalis — Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (JRR Signature Tune)
Composer: Wynton Marsalis Performers: Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), Todd Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker (bj), Teddy Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley (d) Recorded: 28 October 1988
The Majesty of the Blues, 1989 CD CBS 465129 2
2. Chris Barber — Lonesome Road
Composer: Austin, Shilkret Performers: Ottilie Patterson (v), Pat Halcox (tp), Chris Barber (tb), Ian Wheeler (cl), Eddie Smith (banjo), Dick Smith (b), Graham Burbidge (d) Recorded: 20 September 1962
Chris Barber – Memories of My Trip, Proper PRPCD073, CD 1 Tr 13 4’38
3. Chris Barber — High Society
Composer: Williams, Piron. Performers: Pat Halcox (tp), Chris Barber (tb), Edmund Hall (cl), Ian Wheeler (cl), Eddie Smith (bjo), Dick Smith (b), Graham Burbridge (d Recorded: 1962
Chris Barber - Memories of my Trip, Proper PRPCD073., CD 2 Tr.2 4.43
4. Wilbur de Paris — Minorca
Composer: Wilbur De Paris Performers: Wilbur De Paris (tb), Sidney de Paris, Doc Cheatham (tp) Garvin Bushell (cl, piccolo, bassoon), Sonny White (p), John Smith (g & banjo), Hayes Alvis (b), Wilbert Kirk (d & harmonica) Recorded: 1960
The Wild Jazz Age, London LTZ K 15201, S2/3 4’57”
5. Jimmy Giuffre — The Train and the River
Composer: Giuffre Performers: Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts,), Bob Brookmeyer (tb), Jim Hall (g) Recorded: 4 July 1958
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 – Hollywood & Newport 1957-58, Fresh Sounds FSCD 1026, Tr 10 4’35”
6. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra — Up and down, up and down (I will lead them up and down)
Composer: Ellington Performers: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Hamilton (cl & ts), Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bs), William ‘Cat’ Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry (tp), Quentin Jackson, John Sanders, Britt Woodman (tb), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d) Recorded: 24 April 1957
Such Sweet Thunder, Philips 7203, Tr 7 3’00”
7. Erroll Garner — Yesterday
Composer: Lennon-McCartney Performers: Erroll Garner (p), George Duvivier (b), Charles Persip (d), Jose Mangual (c) Recorded: 1970
Feeling is Believing, Pye NSPL 28214, S1/2 3’05”
8. Oscar Peterson — Astaire Blues (version 2)
Composer: Peterson Performers: Oscar Peterson (p) Barney Kessel (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller (d) Recorded: December 1952
The Astaire Story Volume 2, Verve 2304 465, S2/3 7’42”
9. Barbara Thompson — Little Annie-Ooh
Composer: Thompson Performers: Barbara Thompson (ss), Steve Melling (keyboards), Dave Ball (b), Jon Hiseman (d) Recorded: Hanover 12 June 1985
Barbara Thompson’s Special Edition, TM Records CDTM11, 3 6’14”
10. Dave Brubeck — Take Five
Composer: Desmond Performers: Paul Desmond (as), Dave Brubeck (p), Eugene Wright (b), Joe Morello (d) Recorded: 21 February 1963
The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall, Columbia C2K61455, CD2 tr 6 6’27”
11. Johnny Hodges — Sweet Georgia Brown
Composer: Pinkard-Casey-Bernie Performers: Emmett Berry (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Al Sears (ts), Leroy Lovett (p), Barney Richmond (b), Joe Marshall (d) Recorded: 25 March 1952
Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra 1951-1952, Classics 1377, tr 18 5’58”
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
Danny Baker
Sun 31 Jul 2011
11:15
BBC Radio 4
Broadcaster Danny Baker joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wcl4
Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny Baker.
He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George Burns.
Despite the successes, he says he's never plotted his next career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you've only got to look at the incredible way this is all botched together and yet I don't feel that's somehow lucky when you look around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who people this business - and they're running departments. All of this is an ant-hill that somebody's kicked over, and I happen to be one of the more bumptious ants."
Record: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face
Book: The Most of S J Perelman
Luxury: My blue suede shoes
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music played
1. Helen Shapiro — Marvellous Lie
Composer: B Lewis/N Paramor
Marvellous Lie/You don’t Know, Columbia
2. Dean Martin — A Day in the Country
Composer: Fain/Webster
Hollywood or Bust, Capitol
3. Max Bygraves — Underneath the Arches
Composer: Flanagan
Best of Max Bygraves, Spectrum
4. Peter Sellers — I’m So Ashamed
Composer: Hare
I’m so Ashamed/A Drop of the Hard Stuff, Parlophone
5. Bing Crosby — Ain’t got a Dime to My Name
Composer: Burke/Van Heusen
Hits of ‘43, Empress
6. Tommy Steele — What a Mouth (What a North and South)
Composer: Weston
Tommy Steele: The Decca Years, Decca
7. Bernard Cribbins — I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Composer: Frederick Loewe / Alan Jay Lerner
The Very Best of Bernard Cribbins, EMI Gold
8. Cliff Richard — The Next Time
Composer: Springer/Kaye
30 Years of Number Ones Vol 3., Connoisseur Collectio
Desert Island Discs Revisited
Kirsty chooses favourites from the Desert Island Discs archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zwlh8
Barry Manilow
Sun 31 Jul 2011
10:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
The castaway choices of Barry Manilow.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012x5k4
Kirsty Young presents gems from the Desert Island Discs archive. In the last of our series of singer-songwriters, we hear the castaway choices of Barry Manilow.
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Sun 31 Jul 2011
12:00
BBC Radio 3
An edition from 2005 featuring the choices of the late travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007g49p
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, travel writer and war hero, died in June at the age of 96. In 2005 he recorded an edition of Private Passions, in which he talked about the music he loved. This is another chance to hear that conversation with Michael Berkeley.
Patrick Leigh Fermor was born in London in 1915, the son of a distinguished geologist. He was brought up in England after his parents left for India, and attended The Kings School, Canterbury, from which he was expelled for holding hands with a local greengrocer's daughter. At the age of 18 he set off to walk across Europe to Constantinople (now Istanbul), a journey which later inspired his two finest travel books, 'A Time of Gifts' (1977) and 'Between the Woods and the Water' (1986). After further travels in the Balkans, he fought in Crete and mainland Greece during World War II. His exploits with the Greek Resistance in Crete inspired his fellow-officer Captain Bill Stanley Moss's book 'Ill Met by Moonlight', later adapted as a film, with Dirk Bogarde playing Leigh Fermor. He published his first travel book in 1950, and became widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer. He divided his time between his beloved Greece and Worcestershire, and was knighted in 2004.
Patrick Leigh Fermor loved music of all kinds, from Greek folksongs to Irving Berlin. His eclectic selection for Private Passions includes an extract from Mozart's Don Giovanni and the finale of the Sinfonia concertante K364 for violin and viola; part of Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet; part of the Tenebrae Responsories by Victoria; Debussy's Gigues (from Images); Britten's arrangement of The Salley Gardens, and Michael Berkeley's own Variations on Greek Folk Songs for solo viola, inspired by Leigh Fermor's own celebrated vocal renditions.
Music played
1. Claude Debussy — Gigues (from Images)
Performers: Orchestra of the Suisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet
DECCA 433 712-2
2. Irving Berlin — Let's face the music and dance
Performers: Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and his Orchestra
ASV CD AJA 5245
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Vedrai carina (from Don Giovanni Act 2, Scene 1)
Performers: Mirella Freni (Zerlina), New Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
EMI SMS 7 63841-2
4. Michael Berkeley — Variations on Greek Folk Songs
Performers: Penelope Thompson (viola)
Private recording
5. Tomás Luis de Victoria — Responsorium IX: Seniores Populi (from the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday)
Performers: Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill
HYPERION CDA 66304
6. Franz Schubert — Quintet in A, D667 The Trout (Variations 4th movement)
Performers: Andras Schiff (piano), members of the Hagen Quartet, Alois Posch (double bass)
DECCA 458 608-2
7. Hector Berlioz — The young Capulets leaving the ball (Romeo et Juliette , Part 2)
Performers: Choir of Bavarian Radio, Vienna PO/Sir Colin Davis
PHILIPS 470 543-2
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K364 (Presto Finale)
Performers: Norbert Brainin (violin), Peter Schidlof (viola), London Mozart Players/Harry Blech
TESTAMENT SBT 1157
9. Louis Couperin — La tromba
Performers: Pierre Fournier (cello), Lucerne Festival Strings/Rudolf Baumgartner
LP: DG 419 349-1
10. Benjamin Britten — The Sally Gardens
Composer: trad Performers: Jamie McDougal (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
HYPERION CDD22042
Words and Music
A sequence of classical music mixed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Reconciliation
Sun 31 Jul 2011
22:15
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music related to reconciliation. Readings by Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012whsn
In our personal lives or on the world stage, reconciliation is an essential part of humankind's co-existence and civility. It can sometimes be a painful process, admitting our mistakes or failings, but it can also be a moment of celebration where we achieve redemption and forgiveness; where we can put the past behind us and move forward with great hope and optimism. Actors Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale read poetry by John Donne, Peter Porter and Christina Rossetti, with music by Tchaikovsky, John Adams and Nick Cave.
Producer's Note
In our personal lives or on the world stage, reconciliation is an essential part of humankind's co-existence and civility. It can sometimes be a painful process, admitting our mistakes or failings, but it can also be a moment of celebration where we achieve redemption and forgiveness; where we can put the past behind us and move forward with great hope and optimism. Actors Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale read poetry by John Donne, Peter Porter and Christina Rossetti, with music by Tchaikovsky, John Adams and Nick Cave.
Acts of reconciliation have been important moments in many countries’ political histories – for example in South Africa following apartheid; or across Europe in the aftermath of two world wars.
Desmond Tutu wrote that “true reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing.”
Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrica, originally a Methodist hymn and here performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, was used by the resistance movement in South Africa in its campaign against Apartheid. In 1997, and following the fall of the regime, it was taken to form the country’s official National Anthem to illustrate how opposing factions had finally come together.
Siegfried Sassoon and Laurie Lee have both emphasised the need for reconciliation in their war poetry. They suggest war brings death and destruction for both sides and what one should focus on is universal brotherhood. It’s a theme that Beethoven describes in the fourth movement of his 9th Symphony: Menschen werden Bruder – all men will become brothers. Similarly Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A is a great symbol of reconciliation as the key shifts from minor to major.
This edition of the Words and Music begins with the hope that reconciliation can bring. The Landing of the Spirit of ’76 from John Adams’ opera Nixon in China symbolises the anxiety and expectation the world felt when President Nixon travelled to meet Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tung in an attempt at bringing two nations together: old enemies could become friends and the politics that hitherto had divided nations might come to an end.
It’s an idea we return to later in the programme with another piece from the opera, News has a kind of mystery, in which Nixon explains his anxiety that ‘the whole world was listening’ to the landmark meeting between two countries.
On a domestic scale, reconciliation can be part of the healing process following the break down of a relationship. In James Fenton’s The Mistake, the author describes the heartbreaking moment when you realise ‘exactly what you did / wrong’. It’s a moment of dismay but that we must ‘Lay claim to’ these mistakes in order to achieve real healing.
Anna Swir’s poem Tomorrow they will carve me, illustrates how moments of distress can similarly bring epiphanies and revelations as it explains how she’s coming to terms with her fate of having to undergo surgery and the risks it poses.
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
John Adams — Nixon in China
Performer: Orchestra of St Luke’s; Edo de Waart
Elektra/Nonesuch 979 177-2, CD1 Tr4
00:01
Shenagh Pugh
Sometimes
00:02
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Le Nozze di Figaro
Performer: Thomas Allen; Kiri te Kanawa; Lucia Popp; Samuel Ramey; Robert Tear; Philip Langridge; Giorgio Tadeo
DECCA 410 150-2, CD3 Tr10
00:07
Derek Mahon
Everything is going to be alright
00:08
Leos Janacek — String Quartet No.2 “Intimate Letters”
Performer: Pavel Haas Quartet
Supraphon SU 3877-2, Tr4
00:16
Christina Rossetti
I loved you first: but afterwards your love
00:16
Nick Cave — Love Letter
Performer: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
MUTE CDSTUMM 164, Tr4
00:20
James Fenton
The Mistake
00:22
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Acquiescence
Performer: Olga Borodina; Larissa Gergieva;
PHILIPS 4420132, Tr8
00:27
Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness
00:29
Johann Sebastian Bach — Invention No.15 in B Minor, BWV 786
Performer: Glenn Gould
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- アーティスト: Michael Nyman
- 出版社/メーカー: Polygram Records
- 発売日: 1991/11/12
- メディア: CD
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