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10月 1日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/sunshine/playlist.html?st=20111001
01. The One I Love / R.E.M.
ALBUM: Eponymous
02. Three Little Birds / Playing For Change
ALBUM: PFC2: Songs Around The World
03. Gimme Shelter / Playing For Change
ALBUM: PFC2: Songs Around The World
04. No Banker Left Behind / Ry Cooder
ALBUM: Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
05. Baby Joined the Army / Ry Cooder
ALBUM: Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
06. Dixie Flyer / Randy Newman
ALBUM: The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
07. Birmingham / Randy Newman
ALBUM: The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
08. Big Black Dog / Emmylou Harris
ALBUM: Hard Bargain
09. Darlin' Kate / Emmylou Harris
ALBUM: Hard Bargain
10. Must Be In A Good Place Now / Bobby Charles
ALBUM: Bobby Charles
11. Small Town Talk (single version) / Bobby Charles
ALBUM: Bobby Charles
12. Done A Lot Of Wrong Things / Bobby Charles
ALBUM: Bobby Charles
13. Why Are People Like That? / Bobby Charles
ALBUM: Bobby Charles
14. Bright Lights, Big City / Johnny Winter feat. Susan Tedeschi
ALBUM: Roots
15. Dust My Broom / Johnny Winter feat. Derek Trucks
ALBUM: Roots
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10月 1日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前10:55（115分）
ゴンチチ
渡辺亨
− 喫茶店の音楽 −
「ティー・アンド・ケイク」 (ゴンチチ)(3分07秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESBC1309＞
「ティー・フォー・トゥー」 (ニック・デカロ)(3分56秒)
＜MCA MVCM-21036＞
「ランベルマイユ コーヒー店」 (オクノ修)(1分34秒)
＜COOLSTAR MUSIC FRCD-2001＞
「マイナー・マーチ」(ジョージ・ウォーリントン・クインテット)(6分45秒)
＜VICTOR VICJ2049＞
「ウォーター・ライジング」 (パズル・ミューテソン)(3分33秒)
＜BEDROOM COMMUNITY HVALUR11CD＞
「学生街の喫茶店」 (ショコラ&アキト)(4分52秒)
＜GRAND GALLERY JAPAN GRGAJ-0006＞
「ダフネ」 (ジャンゴ・ラインハルト)(4分26秒)
＜BMGファンハウス BVCJ-31032＞
「アイ・フォール・イン・ラヴ・トゥー・イージリー」(ジョニー・ハートマン)(2分24秒)
＜日本コロムビア COJY-9130＞
「夏の日の恋」 (高中正義)(4分12秒)
＜LAGOON REC. LAG0012＞
「夕暮れ」 (ランプ)(5分32秒)
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL-16001＞
「スワンナノア・トンネル」(バスコム・ラマー・ランスフォード)(3分37秒)
＜SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD40082＞
「スウィートハート」 (マリア・マルダー)(3分06秒)
＜REPRISE REC. P8522R＞
「鳥の歌」 民謡、パブロ・カザルス編曲(2分29秒)
(チェロ)パブロ・カザルス
＜CBS 61765＞
「ブラック・コーヒー」 (シニード・オコナー)(3分21秒)
＜CHRYSALIS CHEN26-1＞
「リトル・カフェ」 (ゴンチチ)(3分07秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1796＞
「チェルシー・ホテル」 (レナード・コーエン)(3分32秒)
＜SONY MUSIC JAPAN SICP2871＞
「ア・ドイダ」 (セウ・ジョルジ)(3分05秒)
＜CAFUNE 60252775092＞
「ジャポネーザ」 (セウ・ジョルジ)(3分54秒)
＜CAFUNE 60252775092＞
「キャンドルズ・ファイア」 (ベイルート)(3分19秒)
＜コントラリード CTRD048＞
Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 1 Oct 2011
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0159f6v
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. Pete Johnson and Harry James — Boo-Woo
Composer: Spencer Williams Performers: Harry James (tp), Albert Ammons (p), Johnny Williams (b) Eddie Dougherty (d) Recorded: 1939
Boogie Woogie Stomp, Living Era ASV CD AJA 5101, 17 2’56”
3. Nik Payton & Bob Wilber — Scuttlebrook Bounce
Composer: Bob Wilber Performers: Nik Payton (ts) Bob Wilber (as), Richard Busiakiewicz (p), Dave Green (b), Steve Brown (d) Recorded: August 2007
Swinging the Changes, Arbors Records ARCD 19358, 14 3’38”
4. Wilbur de Paris — Under the Double Eagle
Composer: J.F. Wagner Performers: Wilbur De Paris (tb), Sidney de Paris (cornet), Omer Simeon (cl), Don Kirkpatrick (p), Eddie Gibbs (banjo), Harold Jackson (b), Freddie Moore (d) Recorded: September, 1952
Marchin’ & Swingin’, London LTZ K 15226, S1/3 5’10”
5. Count Basie — Song of the Islands
Composer: King Performers: Count Basie (p), Buck Clayton, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren, Jack Washington (as), Buddy Tate, Lester Young (ts), Freddy Green (g), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (d) Recorded: 4 August 1939
Count Basie and his Orchestra 1939 Vol 2, Classics 533, 15 3’00”
6. Dizzy Gillespie — The Champ
Composer: Gillespie Performers: Dizzy Gillespie (tp), J.J. Johnson (tb), Budd Johnson (ts), Milt Jackson (p and vibes), Percy Heath (b), Art Blakey (d) Recorded: 16 April 1951
Dee Gee Days – The Savoy Sessions, Savoy ZD70517, 6 5’37”
7. Django Bates — The Importance of Boiling Water
Composer: Bates Performers: Django Bates (v) The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra Recorded: March 1997
Like Life, Storyville STCD4221, 8 4’50”
8. Respectable Groove — . .. be happy
Composer: David Gordon/Henry Purcell Performers: Evelyn Nallen (recorder), David Gordon (harpsichord), Oli Hayhurst (double bass), Ichiro Tatsuhara (percussion) Recorded: 2004
Dido & Aeneas, SAMCD003, 5 3’46”
9. Jean-Luc Ponty — New Country
Composer: Ponty Performers: Jean-Luc Ponty (vln, organ & synth), Daryl Stuermer (g), Allan Zavod (p), Tom Fowler (b), Mark Craney (d) Recorded: 1976
Imaginary Voyage, Atlantic K 50317, S1/1 3’07”
10. Booker Little — Bee Tee’s Minor Plea
Composer: Westbury Performers: Booker Little (tp), Wynton Kelly (p), Scott La Faro (b), Roy Haynes (d) Recorded: April 1960
Booker Little in New York, Jazz View 013, 3 5’39”
11. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra — Afro-Bossa
Composer: Ellington Performers: Ray Nance (cornet), Johnny Hodges (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Jimmy Hamilton (cl), Sam Woodyard (d), Duke Ellington’s Orchestra Recorded: 1963
Afro-Bossa, Discovery 71002, 1 4’16”
12. Charlie Parker — The Street Beat
Composer: Sir Charles Thompson Performers: Charlie Parker (as), Fats Navarro (tp), Bud Powell (p), Curley Russell (b), Art Blakey (d) Recorded: Birdland, New York 17 May 1950
Charlie Parker & Fats Navarro – Complete Live at Birdland, Rare Live Recordings RLR 88647, 1 tr 8 9’26”
Jazz Library
Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x41z
Graham Collier
Sun 2 Oct 2011
00:00
BBC Radio 3
The late bandleader Graham Collier joins Alyn Shipton to pick his key recordings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p66k7
Few people did more to promote the cause of jazz in Britain than Graham Collier, who died on September 9th. He led a succession of pioneering ensembles over the last 45 years, and was a key figure in Jazz Education. Collier was still actively writing and composing right up until the time of his death. In this special memorial edition of Jazz Library, Alyn Shipton presents an archive interview with Collier, who selected highlights from his long career, from early triumphs such as Down Another Road to his last issued album Directing 14 Jackson Pollocks.
Music played
1. Graham Collier Sextet — Aberdeen Angus
Composer: Collier Performers: Harry Beckett (flugelhorn); Stan Sulzmann (also sax, tenor sax); Nick Evans (trombone); Karl Jenkins (oboe, piano); Graham Collier (bass); John Marshall (drums). Recorded: London, March, 1969.
Down Another Road, BGO, 767 CD1, Tr 4
2. Graham Collier Music — Mosaics, Part 4: Themes 2 and 8 (excerpt)
Composer: Collier Performers: Harry Beckett, t; Alan Wakeman, ss, ts; Bob Sydor, as, ts; Geoff Castle, p; Graham Collier, b; John Webb, d. Recorded: London, 12th December, 1970.
Mosaics, BGO, 767 CD 2, Tr 8
3. Graham Collier — The Alternate Mosaics, Part 4: Theme 8
Composer: Collier Performers: Harry Beckett, t; Alan Wakeman, ss, ts; Bob Sydor, as, ts; Geoff Castle, p; Graham Collier, b; John Webb, d. Recorded: London, 12th December, 1970.
The Alternate Mosaics, BGO, 822 CD 2, Tr 6
4. Graham Collier — New Conditions Introduction
Composer: Collier Performers: Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther, t; Pete Duncan, Malcolm Griffiths, tb; Art Themen, Alan Wakeman, Mike Paige, reeds; Ed Speight, g; Roger Dean, kb; Graham Collier, b; John Webb, d; John Mitchell, perc. Recorded: June, 1976.
New Conditions: Introduction, BGO, 895 CD 2, Tr 3
5. Graham Collier — Hoarded Dreams: Part 6
Composer: Collier Performers: John Schroder, Ed Speight, g; Geoff Warren, a. fl, as; John Surman, cl, bcl, bs; Matthias Schubert, ob, ts; Art Themen, ss, ts; Kenny Wheeler, Ted Curson, Tomasz Stanko, Henry Lowther, Manfred Schoof, tp, fh; Eje Thelin, Malcolm Griffiths, tb; Dave Powell, tu; Ashley Brown, d, perc. Recorded: Bracknell Jazz Festival, 1983.
Hoarded Dreams, Cuneiform, RUNE 252, Tr 6
6. Graham Collier — The Hackney Five (excerpt)
Composer: Collier Performers: Henry Lowther, Steve Waterman, Patrick White, t; Hugh Fraser, Bill Mee, tb; Andy Grappy, tu; Chris Biscoe, Art Themen, Mark Lockheart, Geoff Warren, reeds; Ed Speight, g; Pete Saberton, p; Dudley Phillips, b; John Marshall, d. Recorded: London Jazz Festival, May, 1994.
Charles River Fragments, Boathouse, 004, Tr 1
7. Graham Collier and The Jazz Ensemble — Out Blues
Composer: Collier Performers: Ed Sarath, Steve Waterman, Simon Finch, tp, fh; Hugh Fraser, Mat Colman, tb; Oren Marshall, tu; Art Themen, Karlheinz Miklin, Steve Main, Geoff Warren, reeds; Roger Dean, kb; Ed Speight, g; Andy Clyndert, b; John Marshall, d. Recorded: London Jazz Festival, November, 1997.
The Third Colour, ASC, CD 28, Tr 12
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
Anne Wood
Sun 2 Oct 2011
11:15
BBC Radio 4
Children's TV producer Anne Wood is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015bqbm
Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's TV producer Anne Wood.
Her creations - which include Teletubbies, Rosie and Jim and In the Night Garden - have delighted millions of children around the world. She says she is driven by her fascination with children's creative development - and was horrified by the critical response when Teletubbies was first screened. "I wanted to make a programme that had love in it," she says, "You'd have thought I'd started World War Three the response that happened - it's innocent fun, that's all it is."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music played
1. Willard White — Lazy Bones
Composer: Hoagy Carmichael/ Johnny Mercer
Willard White Sings Paul Robeson, Linn AKD
2. Clinton Ford — Dance with a Dolly (with a hole in her stocking)
Composer: Shand, Eaton, Leader
Dance with a Dolly/Streets of Laredo, Piccadilly
3. Alison Krauss — Down to the River to Pray
Composer: Traditional
Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection, Rounder
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Soave sia il vento
Artist: Delores Ziegler, Dale Duesing and Claudio Desderi with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
Cosi Fan Tutte, EMI CDS
5. Buddy Holly — True Love Ways
Composer: Petty/Holly
Buddy Holly & the Crickets: 20 Golden Greats, MCA
6. Antonio Vivaldi — Domine Fili Unigenite
Artist: The New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti
Gloria: Magnificat, EMI
7. Herbie Hancock — Imagine
Composer: John Lennon
The Imagine Project, Sony
8. Hugh Laurie — St James Infirmary
Composer: Trad/Primrose)
Let them Talk, Warner
Desert Island Discs Revisited
Kirsty chooses favourites from the Desert Island Discs archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zwlh8
Anna Del Conte
Sun 2 Oct 2011
10:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Kirsty Young explores the choices of Italian cookery writer Anna Del Conte.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015f9b3
Desert Island Discs Revisited with Kirsty Young explores the choices of the Italian cookery writer in the third of a series featuring chefs and cooks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/6269472e#b00vy3rr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy3rr
Kirsty Young's castaway is the cookery writer Anna Del Conte.
Born to a wealthy Milanese family, she arrived in Britain in 1949 where her Italian ingenuity with food was sorely needed in a nation still facing rationing and no olive oil. Her books, starting with Portrait of Pasta in 1976, helped to change all that, and established her as a food hero for younger cooks like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith.
She has still more to teach however: whatever you do, she says, you shouldn't serve bolognese with spaghetti as it's just the wrong shape. Tagliatelle is much better.
Record: Part of the duet from the first act of Otello
Book: The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Luxury: Extra virgin olive oil.
Music played
1. Fabrizio De André — Bocca Di Rosa
Composer: Fabrizio De André
Volume 1, Bluebird
2. Giuseppe Verdi — The Overture to the third act of Verdi’s La Traviata
Artist: Arturo Toscanini – conducting the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
La Scala Edition. Vol.2 1915-1946, EMI
3. Luigi Boccherini — Minuet from the String Quintet in E
Artist: I Musici
Mozart: Pachelbel:Albinoni:I Musici, Philips
4. Charles Trenet — Que reste-t-il do nos amours? What remains of our love
Composer: Charles Trenet/Leo Chauliac
Charles Trenet, Columbia
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — La Ci Darem La Mano from Don Giovanni
Artist: Teresa Berganza (and Ruggero Raimondi) with the Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel
More Amore: The Great Italian Love Duets, Sony Classical
6. Bing Crosby — I Never Realised
Composer: Cole Porter
Bing Crosby sings Cole Porter Songs, Brunswick
7. Joseph Haydn — The Adagio from Haydn’s String Quartet No.2 in C Major
Artist: The Amadeus Quartet
Haydn: Stringquartets Op. 54 & 55., Deutsche Grammophon
8. Giuseppe Verdi — Part of the duet from the first act of Otello
Artist: Placido Domingo – and Mirella Freni with the opera of La Scala, Milan conducted by Carlos Kleiber
Verdi: Otello, Music and Arts Programs of America
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Michael Grandage
Sun 2 Oct 2011
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Theatre director Michael Grandage reveals his musical enthusiasms to Michael Berkeley.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0159f86
Michael Berkeley talks to award-winning theatre director Michael Grandage, who succeeded Sam Mendes as director of the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2002. He also concurrently worked at the Sheffield Theatres until 2005, where his work included a number of high-profile new productions of his own as well as showcasing the work of innovative young directors and designers. He has given the Donmar an international profile, and has himself produced six plays a year there during his tenure, as part of a repertoire that includes a mixture of new plays, musicals such as 'Merrily we Roll Along', 'Guys and Dolls', 'Grand Hotel' and 'Evita', 20th-century American and British drama, and Euopean work in new versions. Three of his own productions transferred to Broadway, including 'Frost/Nixon', 'Hamlet', starring Jude Law, and John Logan's 'Red'. In 2010 he made his Glyndebourne debut as an opera director with a new production of 'Billy Budd', and this year has directed 'Don Giovanni' at the New York Met. He will step down as director of the Donmar at the end of this year to develop other areas of his work.
His musical choices begin with part of a Palestrina Mass, and include the rondo from Mozart's Horn Concerto No,.3 played by Dennis Brain; Malcolm Arnold's Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra, and the fourth movement of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony as well as a duet from the original National Theatre cast recording of 'Guys and Dolls', incidental music to 'The Tempest' by Julian Philips, and part of Britten's opera 'Billy Budd'.
Music played
1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Kyrie’ from ‘Missa Pape Marcelli
Performers: The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Director)
GIMELL CDGIM204
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 3rd mvt from Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major K417
Performers: Dennis Brain (Horn), Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
EMI CDM5668982
3. Dmitri Shostakovich — 4th mvt from Symphony no 5 in D minor op 47
Performers: National Symphony Orchestra/Mstislav Rostropovich
DG 4394812
4. Malcolm Arnold — 2nd mvt from Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Op 104
Performers: Phyllis Sellick/Cyril Smith (pianos), CBSO/Malcolm Arnold
EMI Classics CDM 760442
5. Frank Loesser — My Time of Day/I’ve Never Been In Love Before
Performers: Ian Charleson/Julie Covington from the Original National Theatre Cast Recording
MUSIC FOR PLEASURE CDMFP5978
6. Doug Hodge — Wish I’d Found You First
Performers: Doug Hodge
RIGHT BACK RECORDS RBRP002
7. Daniel Evans — Come Unto These Yellow Sands’ – Incidental Music from ‘The Tempest
Performers: Daniel Evans
By permission of composer and performers
8. Benjamin Britten — Music from Billy Budd Act II sc ii
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5190392
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
Breakfast
Sun 2 Oct 2011
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Felicity Kendal and Gerard Murphy read poetry and prose around the theme of breakfast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0159f8g
"Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him." Thomas Babington Macaulay
Of all the meals we eat Breakfast is the most loaded with possibility - to share a breakfast is to share intimacy, or to sit stubbornly in stony cold silence. It is a defining moment in the day, one of ritual and habit, full of joyous promise, or melancholic wonder. It is a meal to obsess over, to fuss over its constitution, or to ignore and sit in quiet contemplation.
Felicity Kendal and Gerard Murphy read poetry and prose around the theme of Breakfast ranging from the Victoriana of Mrs Isabella Beeton's missives to servants, to the narcotic fuelled orgies of Hunter S Thompson, the morning misery of Frank O'Hara, to the boiled egg obsessiveness of James Bond. Breakfast music is provided by G.F.Handel, Frank Zappa, Gustav Mahler, and Dusty Springfield amongst others.
Producer's Note
Act II of Cole Porter’s 1935 musical ‘Jubilee’ opens with platitudes bestowed upon coffee, eggs and bacon, porridge even, but in the midst of his cheer, Porter ponders “… Sunday morning breakfast time, the time all men adore, why don’t the poets go into rhyme and rave about it more?…” Breakfast though has caught the imagination of more than a few writers, because it is not just about morning nourishment, although there are plenty of wonderful descriptions of favourite repasts, but Breakfast is a window on all of life. There is love, there are fights, there is death, but all at the Breakfast table.
Anyone who has sat in a breakfast canteen will surely recognise the eggy shrieks of Helen Ivory’s mechanical chicken, rendered so hauntingly by Felicity Kendal, that begins the programme. A sense of grand arrival that is mirrored in French baroque composer Jean-Phillipe Rameau’s La Triomphante. Grandeur was certainly the hallmark of the late 19th Century breakfast too, and Anthony Trollope’s florid description of the breakfast parlour at Plumstead Episcopi, a table heaving with breads, meats and fishes sizzling in little dishes is about as grand as they come.
From the Episcopi to the sacred, American poet Dorothea Grossman, in the guise of some ancient warmongering goddess perhaps, disregards the rest of the breakfast on offer, for her, it is the coffee that is “sacramental”. Charles Dickens’ Mr Skimpole, eschews legs of beef and mutton as “mere animal satisfaction” and craves foods that “remind me of the sun.”, whilst for Gwendoline McEwen her “kanadian breakfast” becomes a perverse Eucharistic event, as her food “refuses to be sanctified”, and in consuming her meal she reconnects with our primal forebears. It is with these sentiments, of the sacred and carnal intertwined, that I connect the music of 16th Century composer, and murderer, Carlo Gesualdo.
Walt Whitman’s short ‘For Queen Victoria's Birthday’, depicts a simple, beautiful gesture of birthday morning present giving, with the morning excitement amplified by Gustav Mahler’s song ‘Fruhlingsmorgen’, “Get up! Get up!, Why do you lie dreaming?, The sun is overhead!, Get up! Get up!”. Simple it is not, but it is hard to challenge the ambition of Hunter S. Thompson’s ideal feast, not least the “…slice of key lime pie, 2 margaritas and 6 lines of the best cocaine…” he likes to end his morning with. I’m sure though Thompson would have fitted in at Frank Zappa’s technicolour ‘St Alphonso’s Pancake Breakfast’, without anyone raising an eyebrow.
Mary Lamb’s 19th Century ode to breakfast captures its daily life giving properties - the meal as signifier of our ongoing battle against mortality “Ever giving cheerful notice we are living another day, refreshed by sleep when its festival we keep”. You can quite imagine the Little Bird of Edvard Grieg’s ‘Lyric Pieces’ chirping at Mary Lamb’s kitchen window too. For Francis Darwin Cornford and Jack Underwood, breakfast brings a vision, and the promise of love remade. In Dusty Springfield’s 1969 hit, ‘Breakfast in Bed’, it is a complicated lover she welcomes back to bed, “What’s your hurry, please don’t eat and run, you can let her wait my darling, it’s been so long”. Breakfast with lovers crops up in the writing of Ancient Greek poet Sappho too, as she remembers the affections of Atthis, who roused her from slumber to parade around Mytilene. A sentiment echoed in the duet between Solomon and his Queen, ‘Welcome as the Dawn of Day’ from Handel’s 1749 oratorio ‘Solomon’.
If Trollope suggests a grand breakfast, and Thompson an orgiastic one, Ian Fleming’s James Bond, fastidious in all things, “maintained that there was such a thing as a perfect boiled egg” in ‘From Russia with Love’. A prime example of a breakfast fetishist. In Orson Welles 1941 drama ‘Citizen Kane’ it is at the carefully laid breakfast table that we watch Kane’s marriage to Emily disintegrate, as Bernard Hermann’s score soundtracks Welles’ artfully cut montage, in swirls of increasing bleakness.
Heather Phillipson’s love letter to porridge ‘Dependency on Oats’ borders on the obsessive, but speaks of a reassuring consistency of breakfast, which not an attribute celebrated by Pete Seeger in his version of the great depression ballad ‘Beans, Bacon and Gravy’. From the other end of the scale Stoddard King is trying to avoid “bacon which produces weight” as he sings his ‘Breakfast Song in Time of Diet’. One of the greats of all Breakfast song, is Cole Porter’s aforementioned ‘Sunday morning breakfast time’, which is followed here by the capers of “Dean Cope, the Emminent Divine” staging the epic food fight that “scandalized the local sheep”, in Harry Graham’s comic poem, ‘Breakfast’. The twists and turns of which seem perfectly mirrored in the theme and variations of Schubert’s Trout Quintet.
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861) codifies a life of servitude for those downstairs, and it is those same housemaids with their “damp souls” that T.S. Eliot writes of in ‘Morning at the Window’. Benny Goodman may have written his ‘Breakfast Feud’ before a different war to the one Eliot’s housemaids were facing, but you can imagine them letting their hair down to it when they finally got there. It is with war too that I found one of the most moving accounts of breakfast. The two young men in the trench, in Hexham poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson’s 1914 poem, eat their breakfast lying on their backs “Because the shells were screeching overhead”, and as in Butterworth’s poignant setting of AE Housman’s ‘Is my team ploughing’, by the end of the poem one of them is alive, the other dead.
Swamped by despair Frank O’Hara’s short ‘Melancholy Breakfast’ will probably be recognisable to those who are resolutely not morning people. In Jacques Prevert’s poem, ‘Breakfast’, the tension is palpable as a couple sit in thorny silence, coffee drunk and cigarettes smoked, but not a word said. Perhaps he is the flawed gentleman of Bonnie Prince Billy's song ‘Troublesome Houses. Breakfast in Bed’ returns as a theme in Hugo Williams’ cynical account of his one night stand, which pairs beautifully with the seductive raised eyebrow of Julie London’s 1967 ‘Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast’. To round off the sequence I turned to Craig Arnold’s ‘Meditation on a Grapefruit’, which captures a sense of the half awake ponderous nature of the meal, followed by the whistling kettle meditation of Max de Wardener’s ‘Kettle Song’.
Frivolous, inconsequential, funny; but also moving, and at times the heartbreaking morning stage upon which all human life is acted out, I hope you find Breakfast makes for fascinating, if hungry listening.
Peter Meanwell (Producer)
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
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Ryu Hankil — Poet
Performer: Ryu Hankil (clockworks)
Manual manualcd01
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Helen Ivory
Breakfast Machine, reader Felicity Kendal
00:00
Jean-Philippe Rameau — Fanfarinette
Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet
MDG 6191374-2
00:02
Anthony Trollope
The Warden (extract), reader Gerard Murphy
00:04
Dorothea Grossman
I allow myself, reader Felicity Kendal
00:04
E.C. Ball — The early bird always gets the worm
Performer: Michael Hurley
TSQ2288, Tr.7
00:07
Charles Dickens
Bleak House, reader Gerard Murphy
00:08
Gwendoline McEwen
The Last Breakfast, reader Felicity Kendal
00:09
Gesualdo — Tenebrae responsories for Maundy Thursday [excerpt]
Performer: The King’s Singers
SIGNUM SIGCD048
00:12
Walt Whitman
For Queen Victoria's Birthday, reader Felicity Kendal
00:13
Gustav Mahler — Fruhlingsmorgen
Performer: Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
RCA 88697567732
00:15
Hunter S Thompson
The Great Shark Hunt (Strange Tales from a Strange Time) [extract], reader Gerard Murphy
00:16
Frank Zappa — St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast
Performer: Frank Zappa
ZAPPA CDZAP 18
00:20
Mary Lamb
Breakfast, reader Gerard Murphy
00:22
Edvard Grieg — Little Bird (Lyric Pieces III, op.43)
Performer: Mie Miki (accordion)
BIS CD1629
00:24
Francis Darwin Cornford
A Montreux Hotel, reader Felicity Kendal
00:24
Jack Underwood
I promise when I lift your egg, reader Gerard Murphy
00:25
Dusty Springfield — Breakfast in Bed
Rhino
00:28
Sappho
It was you Athis who said, reader Felicity Kendal
00:29
George Frideric Handel — Welcome as the day of dawn (Solomon, HWV 67)
Performer: Sarah Connolly, Rosemary Joshua
Chaconne CHAN0767
00:32
Ian Fleming
From Russia with Love [extract], reader Felicity Kendal
00:33
Bernard Herrmann — Citizen Kane (Breakfast montage)
Performer: RKO Orchestra
Laserlight
00:37
Heather Phillipson
Dependency on oats, reader Felicity Kendal
00:38
Pete Seeger (voice and banjo) — Beans, Bacon and Gravy
Smithsonian Folkways SFW40058
00:41
Stoddard King
Breakfast Song in Time of Diet, reader Gerard Murphy
00:41
Cole Porter — Sunday Morning Breakfast Time
Performer: Cole Porter
Koch 371712H1
00:43
Harry Graham
Breakfast, reader Gerard Murphy
00:46
Franz Schubert — Piano Quintet in A major, D667 "The Trout" (Fourth movement)
Performer: Bronfman / Zukerman / Marks / Forsyth / Quarrington
SONY 88697160442
00:54
Isabella Beaton
The book of Household Management (1861), reader Felicity Kendal
00:55
TS Eliot
Morning at the Window, reader Gerard Murphy
00:56
Benny Goodman — Breakfast Feud
Performer: Benny Goodman Sextet
Columbia
00:58
William Wilfred Gibson
Breakfast, reader Gerard Murphy
00:58
George Butterworth — VI. Is my team ploughing (Six songs from A Shropshire Lad)
Performer: Christopher Maltman (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA67378
01:02
Frank O’Hara
Melancholy Breakfast, reader Gerard Murphy
01:02
Jacques Prevert
Breakfast, reader Felicity Kendal
01:03
Troublesome Houses — Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang
DOMINO WIGCD257P
01:07
Breakfast in Bed
Hugo Williams, reader Gerard Murphy
01:08
Julie London — Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Liberty Records LRP-3493
01:10
Craig Arnold
Meditation on a Grapefruit, reader Gerard Murphy
01:11
Max de Wardener — Kettle Song
Static Caravan Van 154
